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| Japan PM says N. Korea's uranium enrichment "unacceptable" |
| 2010-11-23 |
| (KUNA) -- North Korea's claim to have secretly constructed a uranium enrichment facility is "absolutely unacceptable," Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday. ... but since there won't be any real consequences you might actually describe it as "inconsequential." His remarks came after a US scientist revealed he had toured a modern, new uranium enrichment plant during a recent trip to North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex. "We will cooperate with the US and other countries to deal with this issue," Kan told news hounds. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the country's Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and US Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen Bosworth agreed to work together with South Korea to address Pyongyang's nuclear program. During their talks in Tokyo, Maehara said if the North builds the nuclear facility, it is "really something grave" and a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that prohibit the country from carrying out nuclear development. Bosworth, who arrived here from Seoul earlier in the day, said the situation "is not a crisis." American scientist Siegfried Hecker said over the weekend that he saw more than 1,000 new centrifuges for processing uranium on November 12. The development of the new facility would allow the North to produce enriched uranium-based nuclear bombs in the future. Pyongyang conducted plutonium-based nuclear tests twice, in 2006 and 2009. North Korea said last April that it resumed reprocessing nuclear spent fuel rods to produce plutonium at the Yongbyon complex, some 90 kilometers north of Pyongyang, in protest against a punitive UN resolution for its long-range rocket launch earlier that month. The complex had been disabled in accordance with six-party agreements involving the two Koreas, the US, China, Russia and Japan. The six-way talks involving two Koreas, the US Russia, Japan and China aimed at North Korea's denuclearization have not been held since late 2008. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Most important response: China. Optimally, replace this nightmare regime with at least a not-insane puppet regime. Second most important response: Japan. Unless China settles down these Nork a-holes, Japan may decide that 65 years of pacifism is over. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-23 08:51 |
| #1 FREEREPUBLIC > BREAKING = NORTH KOREA FIRES ARTILLERY [shells]AT SOUTH ISLAND, OFFICALS SAY [started fire, one House repor destroyed]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-23 02:34 |