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...Iraq to hide a complete nuclear-weapons program. They might be hiding some computer studies or R. and D. on one single centrifuge. These are not enough to make weapons. There were reports from different member states that Iraq was importing aluminum tubes for enrichment, that they were importing uranium from Africa. Our provisional conclusion is that these tubes were for rockets and not for centrifuges. They deny they have imported any uranium since 1991. [From] the U.S., the U.K. and others--we need to get specifics of when and where. We need actionable information...
...Today's diplomatic impasse began with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly's visit to Pyongyang in October, when he confronted his hosts with evidence of a secret North Korean program for producing weapons-grade uranium. That meeting hardly proceeded according to North Korea's plan. North Korean Foreign Ministry officials were reportedly left all but speechless, having cheerfully assumed that Kelly was coming to town with an offer of renewed aid. Reports further suggest that Pyongyang had even readied the U.S.S. Pueblo, the spy ship North Korea captured in 1968, for return to Washington as a gesture...
...North Korean officials finally got back to Kelly after an all-night session with the Dear Leader. Kelly was then reportedly told that Pyongyang did indeed have a covert uranium-enrichment program and "had more powerful things as well." For good measure, North Korea said its 1994 Agreed Framework with Washington was "nullified." This defiant tirade may have been emotionally satisfying for an enraged and embarrassed dictator. But as a diplomatic gambit it was rank buffoonery. By admitting its own nuclear cheating, North Korea inadvertently spared America the trouble of proving the subterfuge...
...Clinton administration. For all five years that South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has pursued his “sunshine policy,” a strategy of engagement for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize, North Korean President Kim Jong Il has steadily worked to enrich enough uranium to add to his nuclear stockpile...
...distinct impression that they would settle for something well short of the nonaggression treaty they requested, if a credible assurance of their security was presented in some high-level fashion. What they really wanted, it seemed to me, was a face-saving way out of the uranium-enrichment program, which, according to U.S. intelligence, is years away from producing the raw material for even a single nuclear weapon. In the meantime, because the program violates Pyongyang's previous nonnuclear commitments, it is damaging the regime's relationships with its neighbors--relationships North Korea had been industriously seeking to improve...