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...world last month when the secretive Stalinist state admitted it was running a nuclear weapons program. Since then, the question on everyone's mind has been: do they already have the Bomb? North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is keeping the world guessing. In a Nov. 17 broadcast, Radio Pyongyang said: "We have come to have powerful military counter-measures, including nuclear weapons." Two days later, the commentary was rebroadcast twice, but the phrase "come to have" was replaced by "entitled to have" nuclear arms...
...North Koreans weren't supposed to be building nukes at all. In the early 1990s, the U.S. suspected Pyongyang was striving to join the atomic club by using plutonium extracted from a Soviet-built nuclear reactor (the CIA at the time said it believed Pyongyang could have one or two bombs). Under a 1994 agreement with the West, North Korea agreed to shut the reactor down in exchange for an ongoing supply of free fuel oil from the U.S. and two tamper-proof reactors for electrical power generation to be built by Japan and South Korea...
...does [President Bush]. I'm not a pacifist. Sometimes diplomacy has to be backed by force." As for the IAEA charges, Blix says the agency never got the authority it sought to monitor Iraq. On North Korea, he says, it was his IAEA that blew the whistle on Pyongyang's weapons program back in 1994. Blix is also quick to point out that once nominated for the UNMOVIC job - after Kofi Annan had tracked him down on holiday in Antarctica - he was the U.N. Security Council's unanimous choice. The hawks still complain about Blix, but the White House...
...published of the malnourished North Korean child as an example of those hurt by the country's economic isolation left me angry and heartbroken. When will the leaders of countries like North Korea start to love their children more than they hate their enemies? I challenge those in Pyongyang to look into the faces of their poor and hungry to see the results of their endless quest for military power. SHELBY EMORY Atlanta...
...decision to allow Japanese citizens abducted by its spies some 20 years ago to return to their homeland was supposed to be a goodwill gesture that would open the way to friendlier North Korea-Japan relations. But as a trust-building exercise, the gambit is backfiring. Bad enough that Pyongyang recently admitted it was trying to build nuclear bombs in violation of international agreements. Now, it seems, North Korea has been less than honest about the fate of the Japanese who died while held by the North?and may be playing a shell game with dead bodies. Last week...