Word: pyongyang
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...nothing. Kim must be aware that the West's demands will not stop once he ends production. Seung Soo Han, South Korea's ambassador to the U.S., says that his government is as intent on learning whether the North already has the plutonium for a bomb as in stopping Pyongyang from making new weapons. "Our ultimate aim," he says, "is to make the Korean peninsula nuclear free...
...Assistant Secretary of State Robert Gallucci, who has been handling negotiations with the North, lists even more specific demands. The U.S. will require Pyongyang's full adherence to the nonproliferation treaty's terms, including special inspections of suspect sites and a ban on all reprocessing of nuclear fuels. Then, if the talks turn to diplomatic recognition, the U.S. will want political changes, like improvements in North Korea's respect for human rights...
...effort to choke the Kim regime economically would have to crack down on the traffic between Pyongyang and the liner's sponsor, Chongryun, the secretive 250,000-member General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, which is under the direct control of Pyongyang. The group is at the heart of a shadowy fund-raising effort that sends between $600 million and $1 billion annually to North Korea, most of it for the Kim regime itself. The funds are Pyongyang's biggest source of hard currency. Japanese intelligence says Chongryun also covertly purchases equipment for the North's nuclear and missile...
Confused by the threat to impose sanctions on North Korea? Wonder why the shrewd (or mad) father and son who rule Pyongyang would scrap their nuclear- weapons program in the face of measures that have had little effect on less menacing dictators? Join the club...
...preparing to clamp economic sanctions on Pyongyang...