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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274602/posts
Analysts: NKorea’s chemical arms as grave as nukes
AP/Yahoo News ^ | 6/18/09 | JAE-SOON CHANG
Posted on June 18, 2009 12:14:52 PM PDT by Kartographer
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea’s massive stockpile of chemical weapons is as threatening as its nuclear program, analysts said Thursday, highlighting an aspect of the secretive regime’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction that is rarely talked about.
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http://inatoday.com/moscowdouble20090618.htm
“IS MOSCOW DOUBLE-DEALING ON
NORTH KOREA?”
International News Analysis Today
June 18, 2009
By Toby Westerman
SNIPPET: “Despite its condemnation of North Korean nuclear and missile testing, and its overt support of sanctions against North Korea, Moscow continues to aid the Stalinist regime in Pyongyang, maintaining a policy that began with the establishment by Soviet authorities of a communist government in northern part of the Korean peninsula in 1948.
In late April 2009, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, for a two-day visit. Lavrov’s activities were in line with Moscow’s stated position on North Korea, which is that Russia will assist North Korea to develop in a peaceful manner, but will discourage nuclear and ballistic missile experimentation.
The two nations signed a series of agreements which covered “the entire spectrum of humanitarian interaction,” according to one Russian language report.
But the entire Lavrov visit, as well as Moscow’s true relationship with North Korea, can be framed within written remarks Lavov left at the mausoleum dedicated to the first dictator of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, who died 1994 but is still referred to as the “perpetual president” of North Korea.
In the commemorative book for honored guests at the mausoleum, or Memorial Palace, Lavrov wrote that Kim Il Sung “will be forever in the memory of the Russians” and that Kim “was a consistent supporter of the friendship and cooperation between our nations and peoples.”
Lavrov’s comments were charming reminiscences for a monster.”