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U.S. huddles with allies over North Korea | |
2005-05-06 | |
The rising prospect of North Korea testing a nuclear weapon has U.S. officials working with East Asian allies to prepare a political response to any such test. White House and Pentagon officials have extensively briefed their Japanese and South Korean allies about satellite imagery that appears to show rapid, extensive preparations for a nuclear weapons test in North Korea, the New York Times reported Friday. At the same time, the United States does not want to play into North Korea's presumed desire to create a crisis that then becomes grounds for demanding economic and diplomatic concessions from Washington. "The North Koreans have learned how to use irrationality as a bargaining tool," a top U.S. official. Of particular concern is the construction of a reviewing stand, luxurious by North Korean standards, several miles from a likely test site where workers appear to have been digging what first looked like a deep mining shaft, only to fill it back in -- as would be expected at a nuclear test site.
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Posted by:Steve |
#6 After reading this article, this first thing that popped into my mind was, ''Wouldn't it be convenient if somehow this whole thing literally blew up in NKOR's face?'' A horrible nuclear accident occurring in a country attempting to acquire such weapons could be a powerful deterent for others...especially since it seems that no amount of cajoling or incentives has seemed to work to date. |
Posted by: Witt 2005-05-06 22:12 |
#5 Just leak that we have a someone inside who is helping sabatoge the site. He's paranoid to believe it. |
Posted by: plainslow 2005-05-06 11:30 |
#4 At the same time, the United States does not want to play into North Korea's presumed desire to create a crisis that then becomes grounds for demanding economic and diplomatic concessions from Washington. Just what kind of crisis would be grounds for ''demanding economic and diplomatic concessions''? And who's to say that the U.S. would give in to such demands? |
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-06 10:24 |
#3 That's one of the problems with underground nuclear tests--the ''secondaries''. In this case, I wonder if that grandstand all of a sudden gets caught in one such secondary, incinerating all attending. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-05-06 10:22 |
#2 TLAM |
Posted by: badanov 2005-05-06 10:18 |
#1 Washington wants a coordinated response among its allies to any such test, officials said. Sounds like a TOT drill. |
Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-05-06 10:16 |