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...year-old grandson with one hand and balancing a pizza box with the other, he seemed remarkably unruffled by the vitriol spewing from Stalinist North Korea just 40 kilometers away. After taking another step toward mass production of nuclear weapons by announcing it was restarting a plutonium-producing reactor, North Korea last week vowed to unleash "total war" if the U.S. bombed the Yongbyon nuclear complex. That threat was followed by another: if America beefs up its military presence in the region, the peninsula "will be reduced to ashes, and the Koreans will not escape horrible nuclear disasters." South Koreans...
...whole of Korea will be reduced to ashes." COMMITTEE FOR THE PEACEFUL REUNIFICATION OF THE FATHERLAND, a North Korean governmental organization, on the consequences of a U.S. military strike on the country's nuclear reactor facilities...
...will be reduced to ashes and the Koreans will not escape horrible nuclear disasters," said the peculiarly named Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the government agency that oversees relations with South Korea. To drive home the point, North Korea announced it had reactivated its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Pyongyang said that it would use the reactor to generate much-needed electricity "at the present stage." The problem, according to experts, is that the reactor, which was decommissioned in 1994, is too small to make electricity in useful amounts - but certainly big enough to produce weapons materials. The Bush...
When North Korea confessed to having a secret nuclear-weapons program, reopened a mothballed reactor, threw out inspectors and disconnected the monitoring cameras, officials from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna and decided not to report all this misbehavior to the U.N. Security Council for action. But last week Pyongyang raised the stakes even higher, and now the IAEA may have no choice. When President Kim Jong Il declared that North Korea would become the first nation ever to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and might test some new missiles as well, the pretense...
...talk and work together and communicate with other people, including with North Korea, very, very clearly." The smart money is betting Pyongyang will soon ratchet things up yet again to get Washington's full attention. The next surprise could be an announcement that North Korea's plutonium-producing reactor is up and running again, or something even more dramatic - like a missile test. But in this risky game, any miscalculation could have disastrous consequences. Says one Western diplomat: "There is a risk someone will make a mistake somewhere along the line." - By Kim Yooseung/Seoul...