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| NKors Start Disabling Nuke Program |
| 2007-11-06 |
| SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A team of U.S. experts has begun disabling North Korea's nuclear weapons-making facilities, a U.S. official said, the first time Pyongyang has ever moved to scale back its development of atomic bombs. U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey told reporters Monday in Washington that the disabling of the North's nuclear reactor at Yongbyon ``is a positive first step in this process, and we certainly hope to see it continue.'' He had no details about what specific steps the team was conducting. ``This is going to be a process that is going to take some time,'' he said. The North shut down Yongbyon in July and promised to disable it by year's end in exchange for energy aid and political concessions from other members of talks on its nuclear program: the U.S., China, Japan, South Korea and Russia. The main U.S. envoy to the talks, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, has said the experts would take steps that would require the North to take at least a year for the reactor to be restarted. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #12 ION, TOPIX > DAILY ESTIMATE > EXPANDING THE [US] NUCLEAR NAVY. USG/House 2008 budget debate. All nuke power, all the time, forever.* YET ANOTHER REASON WHY I TELL GUAM LOCALS THAT GUAM'S SELF-DETERMINATION ISSUE vv USA IS PARAMOUNT, + THAT GUAM'S WASH DELEGATE + GOVT NEEDS TO CEMENT GUAM AS A SPACEPORT/SPACEPLANE PORT - NOW, NOT TOMORROW. That GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE, GMD-TMD, SEA BASING-MOB, etal., once made cheap effective and mass producable, means the USAF in LR will likely be the last of the major [non-Grunt] US armed services to still have utility for Guam, and be the last to leave besides NASA/SPAWAR. But hey, I'm just a simple Madonna fan from Guam - what do I know or remember [Paula Abdul]5, 10 - 40 yarns ago!? BIG TECHS, WINNING BATTLES, TELLING THE TRUTH, ETC. > PROB EXPLAINS WHY I'M NOT A GENERAL OR ADMIRAL. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-06 23:21 |
| #11 Yep they're dismantling it because there is a rumor that an unnamed facility in an unnamed part of an unnamed Syrian Dictator's country is in need of repair parts. Otherwise, look in the yellow pages under nuclear materials. Do you suppose that the Iranians would like some good low mileage enriched uranium? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-11-06 23:02 |
| #10 TOPIX/CHOSUN ILBO > STRIPPED DOWN/AUSTERE WARSHIP SPOTTED IN NORTH KOREAN HARBOR. Its a Cold War Soviet = Russ KRIVAK-class, spotted by Google Earth in NK harbor of Nampo. Just in time - also from TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA PLANS ROUTINE BMD EXERCISES, vv threats from the NOKORS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-06 23:01 |
| #9 I get the feeling what they're doing is the same as pulling a single cotterpin and pronouncing "It can't run now". (But Cotterpins are cheap and quickly replaced.) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-11-06 12:50 |
| #8 As Ronnie Reagan said, trust, but verify. The stooges mentioned above ( Carter, Clinton, and Halfbright + I might add the UN ) only wanted to tout themselves as diplomats, regardless of their non-results. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-11-06 11:50 |
| #7 It's correct to be skeptical regarding NorK, but still, this is a sign of progress. Compare it to what passed for progress before: Carter, Clinton, and Halfbright. |
| Posted by: Spot 2007-11-06 07:56 |
| #6 Skeptics beware. As if a healthy sense of skepticism is unwarranted regarding North Korea's track record of actually following through on its promises. I'd wager only the Palestinians have made a more dismal showing in that respect. The administration had best be exceptionally careful about prematurely trumpeting this as some "major foreign policy victory". History has proven itself rather unkind to those who have previously trusted the North Koreans. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-06 07:48 |
| #5 Skeptics beware. This could be the start of a real and major foreign policy victory for the US (and the Administration). Obviously its just a step but it is a major one. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-11-06 06:18 |
| #4 At |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-06 01:11 |
| #3 Three shells and a pea scam. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-11-06 01:07 |
| #2 Various Netters remind that NK's Yongbyon is one of several NK-claimed/reported indigens nuke facilities, and the only one to be formally "disabled", NOT destroyed, under the Six-Party auspice. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-06 00:36 |
| #1 NKors Start Disabling Nuke Program /cynic |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-11-06 00:30 |