Word: pyongyang
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...Japan) to build safer light-water reactors that yield a type of plutonium more difficult to fashion into atom bombs. Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, complained about a "long and complex, difficult road" to be traveled during the five years it will take before Pyongyang opens its suspect sites to inspection. Bringing the accord into full effect will take a decade. Some critics called the pact a bribe, but if it works, it will defuse one of the worst threats to world peace -- and without the bloody war that might have had to be fought...
After months of threats and confrontation, the U.S. and North Korea seemed closer to an agreement for overseeing Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities. Under the proposed accord, North Korea would reportedly freeze its nuclear-weapons program, allow for regular international inspections of its facilities and abide by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The U.S. in return would help Pyongyang meet its energy needs with coal and fuel oil and eventually help arrange for the construction of nuclear power plants worth billions of dollars...
...says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's the best deal we could have gotten," he says. The fly in the ointment: inspections into North Korea's nuke program won't start for five years. That's enough time for Kim Jong Il, the new chief in Pyongyang, to embark on a whole new nuke program if he so chooses -- and to do so with U.S. loans that come with today's accord. "A lot of people are holding their breath," says Thompson...
...North Korea have reached a deal that should resolve the conflict between the two countries over Pyongyang's nuclear program. Robert L. Gallucci, the chief American negotiator, said a draft would be sent to both capitals for approval from lawmakers, and a final document will probably be signed in Geneva on Friday. News of the accord was an abrupt reversal from just yesterday, when talks between the two countries were cut off. No details of the accord were available, but it's likely to build on provisions reached earlier: North Korea will offer to open its nuclear facilities to international...
South Korean officials are claiming that the United States has made some major concessions to North Korea to break a deadlock on the inspection of Pyongyang's nuke facilities. The two countries are currently on the last legs of negotiations focusing on opening up North Korea's nuclear program to international inspectors. Lee Se-ki, chief policymaker of the governing Democratic Liberal Party in South Korea, said in a report to a party meeting that the U.S. has offered to wait five years before conducting a full inspection on its operations -- something that may anger Seoul. Both U.S. and North...