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...October 2002, North Korea was once again caught cheating on its nuclear freeze arrangements?this time, with its secret, highly enriched uranium program. So what did Pyongyang do? Naturally, it upped the ante. It kicked out all the inspectors called for under the Agreed Framework and tore up its copy of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Kim started saying the D.P.R.K. possessed nuclear weapons and that it might be time to test, or sell, one. And it began asking for a lot more foreign cash to keep things quiet in the neighborhood. Under last week's proposal, North Korea would...
...Administration is now wondering how vulnerable Musharraf is?and what would happen to Pakistan, and its nuclear weapons, if someone took the general out. (Revelations from the International Atomic Energy Agency in the past few weeks show that both Libya and Iran once received technical help from Pakistan on uranium enrichment.) "[Musharraf's] survivability is very important to us," says a senior foreign-policy aide in the U.S. Senate. "What succeeds him could only be worse." Yet his safety can hardly be guaranteed. "He is riding many angry tigers in that country," says U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, a member...
...These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the President." GEORGE TENET, CIA director, taking responsibility for the disputed statement in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq had sought to purchase uranium in Africa...
Iran, under fire for its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons, has made some surprisingly forthright admissions in response to questions from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Sources familiar with Iran's declaration say the country has admitted that it enriched uranium at the Kalay-e electric plant outside Tehran in violation of its agreements with the IAEA. The revelation is part of massive disclosures Tehran made in an attempt to avoid threatened international sanctions for its nuclear activities. The disclosures may at least temporarily thwart U.S. efforts to bring more international pressure on the country over the nuclear issue...
...Iran's declaration is still incomplete and troubling, say those familiar with the report. Tehran did not adequately account for the presence of highly enriched uranium on some of the specialized centrifuges it has obtained, and it did not admit it ever intended to produce a nuclear weapon. That fuels fears that Iran still harbors nuclear ambitions, despite its pledge to foreign ministers from Germany, Britain and France last month to freeze the nuclear program. And it "raises suspicions that Iran has [another] hidden enrichment plant" or some other illicit supply of uranium, says David Albright, president of the Institute...