Posted on 05/02/2009 8:08:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
North Korea is likely to carry out another nuclear experiment before it sits down on the next-round of multinational nuclear negotiation, a senior U.S. government official said.
Gary Samore, a veteran arms control negotiator in the Clinton administration and now serving as Obama's advisor on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, said in response to a question, posed at a forum Friday, on whether North Korea will carry out an additional nuclear test: "I think they are likely to do it," Yonhap reported Saturday.
This is the first time that an incumbent U.S. official has mentioned such a possibility publicly since Pyongyang carried out its first nuclear detonation test in October 2006.
North Korea Friday said it would conduct a second nuclear test and to test-launch ballistic missiles unless the United Nations Security Council apologizes for condemning its recent rocket launch.
"Unless the U.N. Security Council offers an apology immediately, we will be forced to take additional self-defense measures to protect the highest interests of our republic," a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
"They will include a nuclear test and ballistic missile tests," the statement said.
"It's very clear that North Korea wants to wage a fight. They want to get ride of the six-party talks," Samore said, adding Pyongyang is also trying to place the other five participating countries of the nuclear talks at odds each other. "We are only waiting," he said.
Samore also said that he believes that relevant countries will support additional sanctions on North Korea if the latter goes ahead with its second nuclear test.
The Security Council had condemned the North's April 5 launch of a long-range rocket and ordered tougher enforcement of existing sanctions.
Pyongyang conducted its first-ever atomic test blast in 2006 and is thought to possess enough plutonium to produce some several nuclear bombs. But experts have said the country is not believed to have mastered the technology to make a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on a missile.
I don’t think North Korea would dare fire another missle test. Not unless they want to risk UN diplomats possibly discussing potential sanctions, possibly.
It when the Islamic Terrorists test one on DC, New York or Los Angeles, I wonder if then our Fearless Leader will show that steel spine Joe Biden told us about!
Or will Joe just ask the charred corpses to stand up?
Or just tell us... 
to keep off the trains, planes and buses...
Oh Barry can take care of this. Just send Her Thighness over to talk to Chia Pet. /sarcasm
What the hell do the North Koreans have to fear? The Øbamanation won't do anthing other than ask the UN to write them a stern letter.
It is when the Islamic Terrorists test one on DC, New York or Los Angeles that I wonder if then our Fearless Leader will show that steel spine Joe Biden told us about!
Or will Joe just ask the charred corpses to stand up?
Or just tell us... to keep off the trains, planes and buses--
HEY BENDER did you hear Little Kim sons are fighing over throne thanks to their respectable moms encouragement it remind me of one those Soap opera you see here on KSCL channel 18
Now that would make a heckuva reality show.
Bump
I wouldn’t mind see that
Would be Keeping up with Chia Pet
“non-proliferation”
Uh, Gary... I do not think that word means what you think it means...
...or away from places that glow...
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