Word: yongbyon
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...tested a nuclear weapon, precisely the opposite of the result Bush intended. Since then, the Administration has tried bribery, offering blandishments like food and free fuel oil in hopes that in return North Korea would stand down its nuclear program. Kim has responded a bit-his nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, which produced the fissile material for the North's estimated 8 to 10 nuclear bombs-is slowly being shut down. But Kim has refused to detail all the other components of his nuclear program, including an alleged uranium enrichment effort, and he has continued to sell North Korean nuclear expertise...
...partners (China, Russia, Japan and South Korea). In a convincing presentation to reporters in Washington, the Administration produced damning photographic evidence of what has been whispered about for seven months now: North Korea was intimately involved in helping Syria build a plutonium-fueled nuclear reactor, "basically a copy of Yongbyon," one Administration official told TIME...
...arms program. After a promising start to carrying out landmark denuclearization agreements signed by the North in 2007 - deals reached through the six-party talks involving North Korea, South Korea, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan - Pyongyang is no longer cooperating. North Korea shut down its main reactor at Yongbyon in July and allowed in international inspectors, as called for by its agreements. But a deadline to disclose all of its nuclear programs and disable the Yongbyon facilities came and went at the end of last year. To try to break the impasse, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill...
...face-to-face meetings with the North, along with handling diplomatic affairs with a sweep of other East Asian and Pacific countries. As the talks have made more headway, Hill has gotten greater latitude from the Administration. With some balking, the North has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Recent talks have dangled carrots before Pyongyang like promising deliveries of heavy fuel oil in exchange for further denuclearization. The New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea in February is not a direct result of Hill's work, but the event would surely have been less likely without...
...diplomatic consensus was not good going into the orchestra's adventure in the Hermit Kingdom. Except for closing a nuclear reactor at Yongbyon - a significant step, to be sure - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has not fulfilled any other aspect of the supposedly ground-breaking deal he signed last year. But the warmth and musical harmony of Tuesday night in Pyongyang seemed to belie that impasse. And what dramatic possibilities there might have been. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on the same peninsula, albeit in South Korea, attending the inauguration of that country's new President. If there...