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...light-water reactor. No specific dates for disarmament have been set, and barely hours passed before Pyongyang and Washington were sniping at each other over the details. North Korea declared that the U.S. "should not even dream" that it would dismantle its nuclear programs before receiving a new plant. But for the first time since the U.S. accused North Korea of breaking a 1994 accord freezing its nuclear weapons program three years ago, there is some hope that the standoff on the Korean peninsula can be resolved. "We have an agreement," Hill told reporters later that day. "It wasn...
...situation looked anything but hopeful when the latest round of the talks began on July 25. The U.S. and its allies raised the prospects of normalized international relations if Pyongyang abandoned its nuclear aspirations. But the North Koreans balked, insisting they needed a nuclear plant to produce electricity?a condition the U.S repeatedly said was a deal-breaker. With the two sides in a stalemate, China's Wu called a recess on August 7. Back in Washington, Hill vented his frustrations. "For a moment, I really thought I saw the top of the mountain there," he said in a speech...
...precedent?it began construction of a reactor that could make many bombs' worth of plutonium while suspending routine international inspections of North Korea's nuclear activities designed to prevent proliferation. Pyongyang, moreover, blew the deal apart late in 2002 when it revealed it was building a covert uranium enrichment plant. For these reasons, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced in July that the reactor project would "cease to exist...
...raps in Arabic, English, Dinka and his native Nuer, all of Kenya went crazy for it; it stayed at No. 1 there for eight weeks. Although Jal is widely described as a Christian rapper, he dreams of secular peace in Sudan, of a day "When my people will plant seed in their land/ When my people will be free in the land." That message resonated with Abdel Gadir Salim, a 58-year-old traditional Arab singer and oud (a type of lute) player from northern Sudan whose own fight for freedom - that of musical expression under Shari...
...students, accompanied by two faculty members and several graduate students, hiked along the main crater of Kilauea, the world’s most active volcano, visited a geothermal power plant, toured the giant telescopes on Mauna Kea, and surveyed two black sand beaches...