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...promising Pyongyang a range of diplomatic and economic blandishments in return for the North's nuclear disarmament. Although Pyongyang missed a Dec. 31 deadline to come clean about the full extent of its nuclear-weapons program, as it had promised to do, the North is already dismantling its plutonium reactor at Yongbyon - which produced the fissile material for its small nuclear arsenal - under the eyes of U.S. inspectors. Christopher Hill, Washington's point man on North Korea, made it clear the U.S. would be flexible on the missed deadline for full disclosure. "No one likes being late, but I think...
...party negotiations with North Korea have one chief aim: to get the hermit state to abandon its nuclear weapons program. In recent months, those nations - including the U.S., Russia, China and South Korea - have made some significant strides, including agreements from Pyongyang to shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon and to disclose its nuclear activities. But for Japan, the sixth party to the talks, these diplomatic successes are threatening another of its most tenaciously held foreign policy goals: discovering the fate of 17 Japanese civilians abducted by the North between...
...Regime change, however, is looking unlikely. Relations between the U.S. and North Korea have thawed since Washington agreed to unfreeze some $25 million in North Korean funds after Pyongyang agreed to dismantle the Yongbyon reactor; the U.S. is also considering removing the North from its blacklist of state sponsors of terror, an offer that previous Japanese leaders have insisted should be left off the table until the abductees issue is resolved...
...Iran would demand that it be allowed to retain the current research-scale enrichment facilities that are at the heart of the dispute. And it's not hard to see why that would be unacceptable to the U.S. "The amount of enrichment capacity you need to feed a nuclear reactor for energy purposes is actually far greater than what you need to make one bomb's worth of nuclear material a year," explains Ivan Oelrich, Vice President for Strategic Security Programs at the Federation of American Scientists. "It's actually not economical for Iran to enrich its own reactor fuel...
...Since then, mistrust has only deepened. Israeli jets regularly fly over Assad’s palaces. In September, the Israeli Air Force reportedly destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor, purportedly provided by North Korea. A month ago, the Central Boycott Office in Damascus invited delegates from Arab states to redouble efforts at banning business with Israel. Damascus has been a major benefactor and weapons supplier of Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist groups dedicated to Israel’s complete obliteration. It has allied itself with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who has explicitly called for Israel to be wiped...