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...North Korean officials and attended by the two U.N. weapons inspectors assigned to monitor the complex for signs that North Korea is trying to restart its nuclear-weapons program. In full view of the inspectors, the North Korean officials cut dozens of seals from a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor--reopening it for the first time in nearly a decade--and covered over U.N. surveillance cameras fixed to the walls of the plant. When they finished the task, the hosts celebrated with a round of beers...
...even if the White House didn't have the added complication of organizing a war against Iraq, its options for confronting North Korea would be limited. In 1994, when the Clinton Administration demanded that North Korea shut down the Yongbyon reactor, the Pentagon drafted plans for strikes to take out North Korea's key nuclear-production sites. Pentagon officials say the plan has recently been reviewed and modified, but few believe any American President would ever authorize it. An attack on Pyongyang's nuclear facilities could spread lethal radiation over China, Japan and South Korea and trigger a hellacious North...
...youth, perhaps, but they help to explain why the South Korean government seems to be running interference for Pyongyang these days. Since admitting in October that it has a covert nuclear-weapons program, North Korea has consistently upped the pressure to force the U.S. into talks, restarting a mothballed reactor that could produce weapons material in violation of international accords and evicting International Atomic Energy Agency monitors. The latest provocation came last week, when the North announced it was pulling out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Magna Carta of international efforts to stem the spread of atomic weapons...
...chemical or nuclear arms. Kim freely admits to developing nuclear weapons in violation of international accords. And last week, in an apparent reaction to the high-seas interdiction of a shipment of North Korean-built Scud missiles bound for Yemen, the North announced it would restart a mothballed nuclear reactor that could produce enough weapons-grade plutonium for at least one atomic bomb a year...
...other aid?help he desperately needs to keep his citizens from starving?but also to wrestle a nonaggression treaty from the U.S. Kim figures he will have to get it while Washington remains occupied with Iraq. Last week's announcement that the country would reactivate its five-megawatt nuclear reactor in Yongbyon appeared to be another page from Kim's script. The facility was shut down under a 1994 agreement because it was capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium. But with the American government suspending oil shipments, the North claims its obligations to the U.S. are now null and void...