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...countries think it unwise to test whether Kim Jong Il is bluffing. So getting Pyongyang back to the negotiating table?the "six-party talks" that the North walked out of last June?becomes more urgent by the month. Recently, the apparent shutdown of a reactor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear power plant has increased anxiety that Pyongyang might be stalling for time while it harvests weapons-grade plutonium to make more warheads...
...acceptable, ElBaradei tells TIME. "Inspectors working for a single country have a problem of credibility," he observes. Yet some progress is being made in dealing with another rogue nuclear regime. This week a group of private citizens from the U.S. are scheduled to visit North Korea to examine its Yongbyon nuclear complex--the first such visit since U.N. inspectors were expelled a year...
...State Department official Charles Pritchard and Stanford University Professor John W. Lewis) for an inspection tour of the Death Star itself, the Yongbyon nuclear complex. As the would-be dealmakers settled into their hotel rooms, North Korea's news agency pitched a "bold concession" for ending the nuclear impasse: in return for an end to Washington's economic sanctions and a resumption of free supplies of energy from the U.S. and its allies, Pyongyang would "refrain from [the] testing and production of nuclear weapons and even stop operating [its] nuclear power industry...
...weapons - a move that would almost certainly provoke North Korea to raise the ante through some new reckless gesture. And North Korea announced that it was steaming ahead on its nuclear weapons program, repeatedly claiming it had reprocessed all of the spent fuel rods previously under IAEA seal at Yongbyon, which would provide enough fissile material for up to six bombs. (North Korea is believed to have built one or two crude nuclear bombs during the 1990s...
...those days, we knew where the plutonium was,” said Carter, referring to the notorious Yongbyon nuclear reactor. “Today, we don’t know where...