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Oct 12 2008 - The Weekly Standard
by Stephen F. Hayes
The Bush administration has agreed to lift North Korea's designation as a state sponsor of terror despite the fact that the North Koreans did not sign any formal agreement obligating the rogue state to verifiably abandon its nuclear program, according to two sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
"There is no formal written agreement," says a former top Bush administration official. "The North Koreans haven't signed anything. We are taking them off the terrorist list based on oral understandings and clarifications. This isn't diplomacy, it's lunacy."
A senior adviser to Republican presidential nominee John McCain blasted the deal as a "delusion" and suggested that the administration is seeking agreements for their own sake, not because they make the country safer.
Nov 12 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ––North Korea said Wednesday that it won't allow outside inspectors to take samples from its main nuclear complex to verify the communist regime's accounting of past nuclear activities.
Oct 19 2008 - American Enterprise Institute
by John R. Bolton
North Korea has now achieved one of its most–prized objectives: removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. In exchange, the U.S. has received "promises" on verification that are vague and amount to an agreement to negotiate the critical points later.
In the Bush administration's waning days, this is what passes for diplomatic "success." It is in fact the final crash and burn of a once–inspiring global effort to confront and reverse nuclear proliferation, thereby protecting America and its friends.
Oct 15 2008 - Washington Times
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) – South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator urged North Korea on Wednesday to stick to its pledge to give up its atomic ambitions, as Pyongyang resumed a stalled disarmament process following a breakthrough deal with the United States.
Oct 14 2008 - Washington Times
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) – North Korea planned to resume dismantling its nuclear program Tuesday for the first time in two months, days after the United States removed the communist regime from a terrorism blacklist as a reward under a disarmament pact.
Oct 13 2008 - Washington Times
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (AP) – Diplomats say North Korea is again allowing U.N monitors to inspect its main nuclear facility.
Oct 12 2008 - Washington Times
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) – North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the U.S. removed the communist country from a list of states Washington says sponsor terrorism.
Oct 11 2008 - Washington Times
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States is dropping North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, The Associated Press has learned, in the latest attempt to salvage a nuclear disarmament deal before President Bush's term ends in January.
Oct 10 2008 - Seattle PI
VIENNA, Austria –– North Korea moved closer Thursday to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility that produced its atomic bomb and banning U.N. inspectors from the site.
Oct 09 2008 - Washington Times
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (AP) – North Korea has told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is placing all its main nuclear complex off–limits to inspectors and will stop its program of dismantling the site.
Oct 05 2008 - American Enterprise Institute
by John R. Bolton, Nicholas Eberstadt
As panicky U.S. negotiators raced this week to save the endangered Six–Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, they faced a major new issue: Who would be calling the shots in Pyongyang when the breathless American diplomats arrived? Kim Jong Il's absence from the North's recent 60th–birthday celebration unleashed a world–wide torrent of speculation and rumors about his failing health.
Oct 04 2008 - Washington Times
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (AP) – Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of supplying at least half a dozen rogue Mideast regimes with nuclear technology or conventional arms. World powers, meanwhile, urged Pyongyang to stop reactivating its weapons–producing atomic program.
Oct 04 2008 - Washington Times
BEIJING (AP) – The top U.S. nuclear envoy held talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Saturday, an embassy spokesman said, after a trip to North Korea failed to stop the communist regime from restoring its atomic facilities.
Oct 03 2008 - Washington Times
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) – The chief U.S. envoy at six–nation talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament met with his South Korean counterpart Friday after spending three days in the North trying to persuade it to resume dismantling its nuclear program.
Oct 01 2008 - Washington Times
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) – Washington's top nuclear negotiator took a new proposal to North Korea on Wednesday to try to salvage a derailed disarmament pact amid reported signs of activity around the communist country's nuclear test site.
Sep 30 2008 - Seattle PI
by THE ECONOMIST
In his last such speech as president, George W. Bush told the U.N. General Assembly last week that the world must stay vigilant against nuclear proliferation.
And so it must. For on his own watch, Bush has so far been unable to stop Iran from enriching uranium in what many presume to be a quest for a bomb, or to make North Korea give up the nuclear weapons it has already tested.
Indeed, on Sept. 24, the day after Bush spoke, North Korea barred nuclear inspectors from its reprocessing plant at Yongbyon, and said it intended to reintroduce nuclear material in a week's time.
Sep 30 2008 - Washington Times
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) – U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill embarked on a mission Tuesday to rescue an unraveling disarmament deal with North Korea as he arrived in Seoul in preparation for a rare trip to the communist nation.
Sep 25 2008 - Washington Times
VIENNA, Austria | North Korea barred U.N. nuclear inspectors from its main plutonium reprocessing plant Wednesday and within a week plans to reactivate the facility that once provided the fissile material for its atomic test explosion, a senior U.N. nuclear inspector said.
Sep 24 2008 - Washington Times
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (AP) – North Korea barred U.N. nuclear inspectors from its main nuclear reactor on Wednesday and within a week plans to reactivate the plant that once provided the plutonium for its atomic test explosion, the chief U.N. nuclear inspector said.
Sep 24 2008 - Town Hall
by Paul Greenberg
There is a moment that comes in the planet's frozen regions and frozen regimes when it's been winter so long spring is only a forgotten memory.
It is a moment of both absolute quiet and absolute unease. Nothing seems to be happening. Nothing has changed, not outwardly. The wind still howls as it has howled for so long, the snow still piles and drifts and settles, obscuring the outlines of structures and events . . . and yet one can feel that something is changing, something beneath the surface, beyond appearances.
