I cannot believe that America has allowed the NOKOs to conduct nuclear proliferation operations to this level.
That fact is almost as disgusting as Kim Jung Il himself.
Posted on 04/20/2008 10:15:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea produced 30 kg plutonium: report
TOKYO - NORTH Korea told the United States in December it has produced a total of around 30 kg of plutonium, about 20 kg less than what the United States estimates, a Japanese newspaper reported on Monday.
The daily Tokyo Shimbun reported that North Korea's chief envoy to the talks, Kim Kye Gwan, told his US counterpart, Christopher Hill in North Korea last December the North had used about 18 kg of its plutonium stockpile for nuclear development and around 6 kg for its first and only underground nuclear test in October 2006.
The newspaper,citing a source involved in the six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear programme for the report, did not elaborate on what the remaining 6 kgs was used for.
The United States, which estimates that communist North Korea has produced more than 50 kg of plutonium, has demanded Pyongyang submit a 'complete and correct' declaration of its past and present nuclear activities.
North Korea has said it has accounted for its past and current activities as required. But the United States says that the North has not discussed any transfer of nuclear technology to other countries, notably Syria, nor has it accounted for its suspected pursuit of uranium enrichment.
Uranium enrichment could provide North Korea with a second way to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons in addition to the its plutonum-based programme.
Under the second phase of the six-party deal, once North Korea has produced its nuclear declaration, the United States is expected to relieve it of sanctions under the US state sponsors of terrorism list and Trading With the Enemy Act.
In the third phase, North Korea is expected to dismantle its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon and abandon all nuclear weapons in exchange for further economic and diplomatic benefits.
Six-party talks, aimed at curbing North Korea's nuclear ambitions, involve the United States, the two Koreas, China, Japan, and Russia, have stalled pending North Korea's full accounting of nuclear activities.
President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, meeting at Camp David at the weekend, warned that even after North Korea makes a full declaration, the information would still have to be verified.
They appeared to back away from a reported proposal under which, according to sources familiar with the matter, Washington would list its concerns about the nuclear programs which Pyongyang would then acknowledge.
Some US conservatives have criticized that idea as giving in to North Korea and aimed at getting a deal before Bush leaves office in early 2009.
A US team will have talks in Pyongyang on Tuesday and Wednesday on how to verify any declaration North Korea may make about its nuclear programmes, the US State Department said last week. -- REUTERS
And still makeing more...
Hmmm...
Thank you for the ping.
There will not be very strong conservative, nor hardly ANY GOP opposition to the current North Korea policy, because "it is our guy at the helm".
"Daily Dose", anyone?! I heard the President had on such a nice striped shirt today. /sarc
“We keep insisting that economy is roaring,” because our guy are in WH.
Seems like a bit of a difference, no matter which person is at the helm. You want things to return to normal, you stop doing the stuff you've been doing, and we'll consider taking away the sanctions. Vs the Clintonian actions of ‘we'll give you loads of stuff on the off chance you might actually consider behaving.’
If they admit to producing 30kg, it's likely they've actually made more than the US estimate of 50kg. The unaccounted material is probably with Iran, Syria, or being shopped around.
My comments here on FR about North Korea for the last nine years, through two administrations, speak for themselves.
And we threatened to go to war with them if they did just that.
“I’ll see your 30 kg and raise you 300,000 kg.”
Ping
18 plus 6 is 24. If they made 30, what happened to the other 6 kg?
I think Chia Pet think if we elect Hillary or Osmara Barek he continue his quest for nukes what do you think Tiger
I think that he waiting for let see who spoil American vote for President in November
I won’t be so roaney anymore maybe this time I could get date with Hillary
I cannot believe that America has allowed the NOKOs to conduct nuclear proliferation operations to this level.
That fact is almost as disgusting as Kim Jung Il himself.
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