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| North Korea vows to remain nuclear |
| 2009-02-03 |
| North Korea says it would not dismantle its nuclear facilities unless South Korea's nuclear establishments and arms deals are inspected. A spokesman for the North's General Chief of Staff said Monday that "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula does not only mean Pyongyang's disarmament, but should also include verification of nuclear facilities in South Korea," the state's official KRT TV reported. North Korea demanded inspectors probe the South to make sure it is not harboring US atomic arms and verify the alleged nuclear facilities, as Pyongyang claims Washington has armed the state with nuclear weapons after the 1950-53 Korean War. After the war ended in a ceasefire rather that a peace treaty, he said the North and the South remained in a state of war and it was "a shameless act of imprudence," to believe that one side would willingly disarm. "As long as there is not any nuclear dismantlement in the South to clear nuclear threats from the United States, dismantlement to remove our nuclear arms won't materialize," the spokesman said amid stalled disarmament talks. In 2003, the six-nation talks, involving North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Japan, China and the United States, were launched to persuade North Korea into giving up its controversial nuclear program. The six-nation deal signed in 2007, offered energy aid to North Korea in exchange for the dismantling of Pyongyang's nuclear plants and the handover of its nuclear weapons and material. The talks, however, faced deadlock after North Korea refused to accept a system to verify its nuclear activities, arguing that the states should be given the chance to verify that US nuclear weapons have been withdrawn from South Korea. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 WORLD MIL FORUM [Chin = GOOGLE Chinglish translation] > IN POST-KIM COLLAPSE OF NORTH KOREA, US MUST SECURE NORTH KOREA'S BALLISTIC MISSLES, 6-8 NUCLEAR BOMBS/WEAPONS, NUCLEAR MATERIALS, AND APPROXIMATELY 4000 TONS OF CHEMICAL WARFARE, OTHER WMD STOCKS. THREE GENER PHASES FOR POST-KIM/COLLAPSE NOKOR NATIONAL STABILITY, RECOVERY, AND DEMOCRATIZATION - FAILURE OF ORDERLY SUCCESSION COULD LEAD TO NEW REGIONAL WAR AMONG COALITION MEMBER NATIONS, FOOD- AND LARGE-SCALE HUMANITARIAN CRISES. * WORST-CASE SCENARIO FOR US > MAY REQUIRE UP TO 1.3MILYUHN US, US-ALLIED TROOPS, NOT 460,000 [3X more]??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-02-03 21:59 |
| #2 I'm not sure that word 'Nuclear" means what you think it means. Long will you glow. |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-02-03 19:39 |
| #1 FREEREPUBLIC > REUTERS.UK - SCENARIOS: WILL NORTH KOREA LAUNCH A WAR [T-2 Ballistic missle lauunch]? versus SAME > NETANYAHU: IRAN WON'T GET NUKES. IOW, WHOM WILL BE FIRST TO PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-02-03 00:59 |