Word: pyongyang
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...next day, a Foreign Ministry official in Pyongyang announced that the meeting at the U.N. had "removed a series of stumbling blocks" and produced a "breakthrough." Officials in Washington said that more details would have to be worked out before they could speak of a breakthrough but that the U.S. has "moved closer" to its goals. They expect to close a deal soon under which the U.S. would call off its annual "Team Spirit" military exercises in South Korea, whereafter the North Koreans would allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume routine inspections of their seven declared...
...negotiating with deadly seriousness. President Clinton has vowed, publicly and unequivocally, that the U.S. will not allow the North Koreans to acquire atomic weapons. Whether they do or do not already have them profoundly affects how the U.S. and all of North Korea's neighbors can and should respond. Pyongyang is playing a dangerous form of nuclear roulette. A new study by U.S. intelligence agencies has concluded that North Korea probably has already built one or two atomic bombs...
...strikes, for example, could trigger another full-scale Korean war, and if the North has a bomb, it is probably hidden. That leaves direct, bilateral diplomacy, the course Washington intends to keep pursuing. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali tried to help the process along by visiting Pyongyang and Beijing over the past two weeks but found North Korean President Kim Il Sung and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen unreceptive to a role...
...intelligence finding correct? To begin with, most recent accounts have made the conclusion sound more certain than it really is. The U.S. intelligence community knows very little for sure about secretive, Stalinist North Korea. Specifically, the U.S. has no hard evidence that Pyongyang's elaborate nuclear facilities have produced any bombs. U.S. spy satellites provide photographs, infrared images and other reports from space that allow Washington to track the general course of Pyongyang's nuclear and military programs. Other forms of solid information are difficult to come...
...Koreans have extracted some plutonium -- the raw material for weapons -- from its 5-megawatt nuclear power plant at Yongbyon, but the U.S. does not know exactly how much. Experts think it could be as much as 12kg (26 lbs.), which would be enough for one or two bombs -- if Pyongyang's engineers are able to build them...