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* December 14, 2010, 6:00 PM KST Harrison’s Giveaway Idea Slapped Down The way out of the latest fracas with North Korea is to give Pyongyang what it wants, Selig Harrison, a former journalist who has visited Pyongyang several times, wrote on the op-ed page of The New York Times Monday. It is one of the most extreme views expressed anywhere since North Korea’s attack of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island on Nov. 23. And the takedown in South Korea and on Korea-related blogs has been swift. One of South Korea’s most powerful newspaper columnists, Kim Dae-joong of Chosun Ilbo, the...

North Korea ready to reprocess spent nuclear fuel into plutonium Sun Apr 17, 3:06 AM ET  Asia - AFP TOKYO (AFP) - North Korea has halted operations at a nuclear power reactor at the center of an international row, a move that could let Pyongyang reprocess spent fuel to retract plutonium and boost its nuclear arsenal, a press report said. North Korean workers re-paint a propaganda tower near the truce village of Panmunjom. (AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je) The United States will shortly send Christopher Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, to South Korea, Japan and China...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 - Scientific tests have led American intelligence agencies and government scientists to conclude with near certainty that North Korea sold processed uranium to Libya, bolstering earlier indications that the reclusive state exported sensitive fuel for atomic weapons, according to officials with access to the intelligence. The determination, which has circulated among senior government officials in recent weeks, has touched off a hunt to determine if North Korea has also sold uranium to other countries, including Iran and Syria. So far, there is no evidence that such additional transactions took place. Nonetheless, the conclusion about the uranium transfer...