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North Korea Watch: North Korea Agrees to Nuclear Disarmament
A South Korean reads a newspaper reporting North Korea has agreed to nuclear disarmament in Seoul, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007. North Korea agreed Tuesday after arduous talks to shut down its main nuclear reactor and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program, just four months after the communist state shocked the world by testing a nuclear bomb.
AP: N. Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament
North Korea agreed Tuesday after arduous talks to shut down its main nuclear reactor and eventually dismantle its atomic weapons program, just four months after the communist state shocked the world by testing a nuclear bomb.
The deal marks the first concrete plan for disarmament in more than three years of six-nation negotiations, and could potentially herald a new era of cooperation in the region with the North’s longtime foes — the United States and Japan — also agreeing to discuss normalizing relations with Pyongyang.
Under the deal, the North will receive initial aid equal to 50,000 tons heavy fuel oil within 60 days for shutting down and sealing its main nuclear reactor and related facilities at Yongbyon, north of the capital, to be confirmed by international inspectors.
For irreversibly disabling the reactor and declaring all nuclear programs, the North will eventually receive another 950,000 tons in aid.
The agreement was read to all delegates in a conference room at a Chinese state guesthouse and Chinese envoy Wu Dawei asked if there were any objections. When none were made, the officials all stood and applauded.
North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Kwan (L) and U.S. envoy Christopher Hill head for the closing ceremony of the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme, in Beijing February 13, 2007. North Korea agreed to take steps towards nuclear disarmament under a groundbreaking deal struck on Tuesday that will bring the impoverished communist state more than $300 million worth of aid. Under the agreement, which was reached by six countries in Beijing after nearly a week of talks, Pyongyang will freeze the reactor at the heart of its nuclear programme and allow international inspections of the site.
Good News for America and Kudos to the Bush Administration.
No nukes for Libya and now no nukes for the Korean Peninsula. However, remember TRUST BUT VERIFY.
Flap cannot help but think that this had some leverage in the negotiations.
Stay tuned……
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North Korea Watch: North Korea Tentatively Agrees to Nuclear Disarmament
AP: Tentative Deal in N. Korea Nuclear Talks
The U.S. envoy to talks on North Korea’s nuclear program said Tuesday that negotiators reached a tentative agreement on initial steps for the communist nation’s disarmament.
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said the agreement outlined specific commitments for North Korea and would set up working groups to implement those goals to begin meeting in about a month. He declined to give other details.
“I’m encouraged by this that we were able to take a step forward on the denuclearization issue,” Hill said.
Good News but deploy National Missile defense anyway. The goal will be to make North Korea like Libya. And keep the North Korean nucelar scientists there and not emigrate to Iran.
Peace through strength?
You betcha……
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Iran Nuclear Watch: North Korea Helping Iran With Nuclear Testing
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Map locating Hwadaeri in North Korea — the site of the country’s first nuclear weapons test.
Telegraph: N Korea helping Iran with nuclear testing
North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year.
Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Teheran’s nuclear scientists.
Flap previously reported the presence of Iran military representatives during North Korea’s July 2006 short and medium range missile tests and aborted test of the Taepodong 2 missile – an ICBM capable of reaching the United States.
North Korea provoked an international outcry when it successfully fired a bomb at a secret underground location and Western intelligence officials are convinced that Iran is working on its own weapons programme.
A senior European defence official told The Daily Telegraph that North Korea had invited a team of Iranian nuclear scientists to study the results of last October’s underground test to assist Teheran’s preparations to conduct its own — possibly by the end of this year.
There were unconfirmed reports at the time of the Korean firing that an Iranian team was present. Iranian military advisers regularly visit North Korea to participate in missile tests.
Flap reported at the time that Iranian nuclear scientists were present at the North Korean nuclear test.
So, now this more revealing expose of the threat of a joint Iran-North Korea program to develop nuclear tipped ICBM missiles.
An audio analysis of this crisis by Con Coughlin is here. Click here to download the podcast.
This is an ALARMING development of the Iran Nuclear Crisis. And how do you think Israel is handling this news?
Intelligence estimates vary about how long it could take Teheran to produce a nuclear warhead. But defence officials monitoring the growing co-operation between North Korea and Iran believe the Iranians could be in a position to test fire a low-grade device — less than half a kiloton — within 12 months.
The precise location of the Iranian test site is unknown, but is likely to be located in a mountainous region where it is difficult for spy satellites to pick up any unusual activity.
Teheran successfully concealed the existence of several key nuclear sites — including the controversial Natanz uranium enrichment complex — until their locations were disclosed by Iranian dissidents three years ago.
Western intelligence agencies have reported an increase in the number of North Korean and Iranian scientists travelling between the two countries.
The increased co-operation on nuclear issues began last November when a team of Iranian nuclear scientists met their North Korean counterparts to study the technical and political implications of Pyongyang’s nuclear test.
The Iranians are reported to have been encouraged by the fact that no punitive action was taken against North Korea, despite the international outcry that greeted the underground firing.
This has persuaded the Iranian regime to press ahead with its own nuclear programme with the aim of testing a low-grade device, which would be difficult for international inspectors to detect.
The “NUCLEAR POINT OF NO RETURN” is imminent. As the United States bolsters its military resources including 21,000 plus more troops and an additional AirCraft Carrier Strike Group it is not too difficult to conclude that these resources may be meant to militarily eliminate Iran’s nuclear program and/or additional Iranian military infrastructure.
Oh, yeah!
Those United Nations sanctions imposed on North Korea and Iran are certainly working well.
NOT
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Just in: Iranian president derides U.S. threats
The United States is incapable of inflicting “serious damage” on Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, as a second U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed toward the Gulf as a warning from Washington for Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region.
“U.S. rhetoric against Iran has not increased,” Ahmadinejad said. “In 2003, they openly threatened to attack Iran. Now they have indirectly made such threats.”
He spoke with confidence over Iran’s ability to withstand a strike. “The United States is unable to inflict serious damage on Iran,” the president said. He also noted, “They (U.S.) are not really in a position to carry out this action (of attacking Iran). I believe there are many wise people in the United States who would not let it happen.”
Stay tuned……..
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North Korea Watch: North Korea Wants United Nations Sanctions Lifted
Top Japanese envoy Kenichiro Sasae, standing in second row, arrives for the resumption of Six-Party Talks as China’s Deputy Foreign Mminister Wu Dawei , seated at right, gathers his notes ahead of round-table discussions at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Monday, Dec. 18, 2006. International talks on North Korea’s nuclear program convened Monday for the first time in 13 months following a boycott by the communist nation during which it tested an atomic device for the first time.
AP: North Korea wants U.N. sanctions lifted
North Korea defiantly declared itself a nuclear power Monday at the start of the first full international arms talks since its nuclear test and threatened to increase its nuclear deterrent if its demands were not met.
Reiterating those demands in its opening speech, the North said the
United Nations must lift the sanctions imposed on the communist nation for its Oct. 9 nuclear test. It also said the United States must remove the financial restrictions that led the North to break off the six-nation nuclear negotiations 13 months ago.The North also said it wants a nuclear reactor constructed for it and help covering its energy needs until the reactor is completed, according to a summary of the speech released by one of the delegations involved. Five nations are trying to persuade the North to abandon nuclear weapons — the United States, China,
South Korea, Japan and Russia.The North said that now that it is a nuclear power, it should be treated on equal footing with the U.S. It warned that if its demands aren’t met, it would increase its nuclear deterrent, according to the summary.
These are opening, bloviating demands from a backward state who is feeling the pain of their DEAR LEADER Kim Jong-Il.
Kim may not be able to obtain his caviar and vintage wine but the average North Korean is less concerned with their nuclear weapons program then on obtaining something to eat on a daily basis.
So, why are the North Koreans even back to the negotiating table after a 13 month absence?
Obviously financial sanctions by the United States and economic sanctions by the United Nations are having some effect. But, China (Kim’s Puppet Master) is worried that all of those missile defense deployments by the United States in and around Japan and Taiwan will be the first step in neutering China’s nuclear missile deterrent.
The U.S. offered in its opening comments to normalize relations with Pyongyang, but only after it halted its nuclear program.
A South Korean official who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the talks said the North was entering the negotiations with a maximum of conditions for success.
Opening the talks at a Chinese state guesthouse in Beijing, head Chinese delegate Wu Dawei urged the envoys to strive for the implementation of a September 2005 agreement in which the North pledged to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for security guarantees and aid.
“This session has significant meaning in building on past progress and paving the way for the future,” he said. “We hope that with the concerted efforts of all parties, we will be able to produce positive results.”
North Korea agreed to return to the six-nation negotiations just weeks after its nuclear test, saying it wanted to discuss U.S. financial restrictions against a Macau bank where the regime held accounts.
That issue will be addressed in separate U.S.-North Korean meetings expected to start Tuesday.
The position of the United States is CLEAR.
North Korea must abandon their nuclear program.
Kim has a choice by either ending the nuclear nonsense or suffering the loss of his regime and ultimately his life.
Stay tuned as this is just the start of talks between North Kora and the United States.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill (C) attends the start of six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme in Beijing December 18, 2006. Talks aimed at persuading North Korea to forsake its nuclear weapons opened in Beijing on Monday, with key negotiators wary over how Pyongyang will respond after staging its first atomic blast.
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North Korea Watch: Bush Warns North Korea – “Don’t Transfer Nukes”
Singapore’s Prime Minster Lee Hsien Loong (L) speaks during a meeting with US President George W. Bush in the East Room of the Istana presidential palace in Singapore. Bush urged Asian leaders to send a forceful message to North Korea that it cannot share nuclear weapons know-how and must stay on the “peaceful path” of disarmament talks.
AP: Bush warns N. Korea: Don’t spread nukes
President Bush on Thursday warned North Korea against transferring nuclear weapons or material to other countries, saying such an act would be considered a “grave threat” to the United States.
The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is atop the agenda in most of the meetings the president will have during his eight-day, three-nation Asian trip, which kicked off with a speech in Singapore.
“The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States and we would hold North Korea fully accountable for the consequences of such action,” Bush said in the speech at the National University of Singapore.
Ahead of its Oct. 9 nuclear test, North Korea pledged not to launch a first strike or allow its bomb technology to be spread outside the country.
Bush also urged allies in the region to stand firm against a nuclear-armed North Korea and enforce U.N. sanctions against the country for conducting a nuclear weapon test last month.
“For the sake of peace, it is vital that the nations of this region send a message to North Korea that the proliferation of nuclear technology to hostile regimes or terrorist networks will not be tolerated,” he said.
In the meantime, the United States should be quickly building and deploying theater missile defense for Japan and Taiwan.
Talk is cheap with the North Koreans.
Stay tuned……..
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North Korea Watch: A Return to 6 Party Talks – A Diplomatic Win for President Bush
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill walks to the departure hall after speaking to journalists, at Beijing airport November 1, 2006. Six-party talks aimed at reining in North Korea ‘s nuclear programme must achieve progress in the next round, Hill said on Wednesday before leaving China.
AP: N.Korea confirms return to nuclear talks
North Korea said Wednesday that it was returning to nuclear disarmament talks to get access to its frozen overseas bank accounts, a vital source of hard currency.
The North’s Foreign Ministry made only indirect mention of its underground nuclear detonation last month. Instead, it focused in an official statement on its desire to end U.S. financial restrictions by going back to six-nation arms talks that it has boycotted for a year.
Confirming other nations’ reports of the Tuesday agreement, the North’s Foreign Ministry said Pyongyang decided to return to negotiations “on the premise that the issue of lifting financial sanctions will be discussed and settled between the (North) and the U.S. within the framework of the six-party talks.”
Washington had banned transactions between American financial institutions and Banco Delta Asia SARL — a bank in the Chinese territory of Macau — saying it was being used by North Korea for money-laundering.
The ban is believed to have blocked access to some $24 million for the North’s leaders, who indulge their taste for luxury goods like cognac and fine wines while the vast majority of North Koreans live in poverty.
U.S. officials also sought to rally other countries to prevent the North from doing business abroad, saying all transactions involving Pyongyang were suspected of having to do with counterfeiting and money laundering.
In Seoul, South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said that he expects involved countries to discuss the disarmament talks when they gather in Vietnam for an Asia-Pacific summit in mid-November, and that negotiations among China, Japan, Russia, the United States and the two Koreas were expected to take place after that. He did not indicate when.
The top U.S. nuclear negotiator said that the negotiations should start as early as possible.
A North Korean soldier salutes to his senior soldiers at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006. North Korea affirmed Wednesday it would return to nuclear disarmament talks to seek a resolution of a U.S. campaign aimed at choking the communist nation’s access to foreign banks.
No gurantees that Washington will TOLERATE North Korean counterfeiting of American currency but these financial sanctions have worked. Negotiations and talks are always preferable to bellicose nuclear demonstrations. Trust, but verify.
In the meantime the United States should proceed with post haste to build strategic and tactical missile defenses against North Korea. This will include expanding Japan’s anti-nuclear missile defense umbrella at sea and land.
Was this a diplomatic victory for President Bush?
Yes
Will the talks be successful?
Well, if not, Washington should increasingly tighten sanctions. No more caviar and wine/liquor for Kim Jong-Il. Also, existing United Nations sanctions/resolutions must be enforced until North Korea stands down their nuclear program – as they have promised.
Stay tuned…….
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Missile Defense Watch: United States Considering Deployment of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missiles in Japan
AP: Report: U.S. Mulls Defenses for Tokyo
The U.S. is considering deploying its advanced Patriot missile defense system near Tokyo after North Korea‘s recent missile and nuclear tests, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Washington unofficially informed the Japanese government it is considering putting Patriot Advanced Capability 3 surface-to-air interceptor missiles around Yokota Air Base in Tokyo’s western suburbs and around Yokosuka Naval Base, south of the capital, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported without saying how it got the information.
The added defenses would cover critical U.S. military installations on the outskirts of Tokyo.
The move would be part of a previously announced U.S.-Japanese effort to deploy PAC-3 missile defense systems around the country as the two allies look for ways to counter what is seen as a growing threat from neighboring North Korea.
Information on the PAC-3 Patriot system is here.
Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) is a high/medium advanced surface-to-air guided missile air defense system. PAC-3 is a major upgrade to the Patriot system. The PAC-3 Operational Requirements Document (ORD) represents the Army Air Defense need to buy back required battlespace lost against the current and evolving tactical missile and air breathing threat. PAC-3 is needed to ounter/defeat/destroy the 2008 threat and to extend Patriot’s capabilities to accomplish new/revised missions. In tandem with the upgraded radar and ground control station, PAC-3 interceptors can protect an area about seven times greater than the original Patriot system.
The PAC-3 Program consists of two interrelated acquisition programs – The PAC-3 Growth Program and the PAC-3 Missile Program. The Growth program consists of integrated, complementary improvements that will be implemented by a series of phased, incrementally fielded material changes. The PAC-3 Missile program is a key component of the overall improvements of the Patriot system, it will provide essential increases in battlespace, accuracy, and kill potential.
The United States should immediately deploy this defensive missile system to protect its bases in Japan and to protect major Japanese population centers. Aegis sea based missile defenses are already deployed off the coasts of North Korea and Japan.
Additional information on the PAC-3 System is here.
North Korea alarmed the region in July by test firing several missiles, including a long-range model believed capable of striking the western U.S. Earlier this month, the isolated communist country sparked global outrage by its first-ever test of a nuclear bomb.
Analysts doubt North Korea’s ability to accurately deliver atomic weapons atop its missiles. But after the missile test, the U.S. and Japan announced plans to deploy the Patriots, which are designed to destroy ballistic or cruise missiles and aircraft.
U.S. military officials have already confirmed that the first batch of equipment for the PAC-3 missiles arrived in Okinawa in southern Japan, where the bulk of U.S. forces in the nation are stationed.
The Patriots would be used as a last resort if Standard Missile-3 interceptors fired from U.S. and Japanese ships fail to knock out incoming missiles, the report said.
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North Korea Watch: Pyongyang Threatens War Against South Korea
North Korean soldiers chat as they take photographs of the South Korea’s side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, about 31 miles north of Seoul October 25, 2006.
Reuters: Pyongyang threatens war if S.Korea joins sanctions
North Korea warned South Korea on Wednesday against joining U.S.-led sanctions against Pyongyang and said it would take action after any such move by Seoul.
South Korea’s participation in sanctions would be seen as a serious provocation leading to a “crisis of war” on the Korean peninsula, a North Korean spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
There you have it, folks – overt NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL.
Is WAR inevitable with Kim Jong-Il?
Military action – most probably.
Stay tuned…….
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North Korea Watch: Kim Jong-Il REGRETS Nuclear Test
North Korea’s top leader Kim Jong Il, right, shakes hands with Chinese special envoy Tang Jiaxuan during their meeting in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea, in this July 13, 2005, file photo. A Chinese envoy met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and delivered a message from Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday October 19, 2006. Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said he had no details of the message conveyed by State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, who flew to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Wednesday.
AP: Report: N. Korean Leader Regrets Test
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed regret about his country’s nuclear test to a Chinese delegation and said Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday.
“If the U.S. makes a concession to some degree, we will also make a concession to some degree, whether it be bilateral talks or six-party talks,” Kim was quoted as telling a Chinese envoy, the mass- circulation Chosun Ilbo reported, citing a diplomatic source in China.
Kim told the Chinese delegation that “he is sorry about the nuclear test,” the newspaper reported.
Kim Jong-Il without a doubt is a MORON.
North Korea has agreed to United Nations Security Council Resolutions to end their nuclear program. They should do so now prior to any suspension of UNSC sanctions.
Also, Flap asks: How much of Kim’s change of heart will cost the American taxpayer?
It sounds to Flap that someone either China or North Korea or both were bought off.
Stay tuned……
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zaoxing at the Diaoyutai Guest House in Beijing. Rice urged China to fully implement the UN resolution against North Korea , particularly the requirement to inspect cargo from the nuclear-armed state.
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North Korea Nuclear Watch: President Bush – United States WILL Stop North Korean Nuclear Transfers
President Bush makes remarks on the No Child Left Behind program during a visit to Waldo C. Faulkner Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006.
AP: Bush: U.S. will stop N. Korea nuke moves
President Bush said Wednesday the United States would stop North Korea from transferring nuclear weapons to Iran or al-Qaida and that the communist regime would then face “a grave consequence.”
Bush refused to spell out how the United States would retaliate. “They’d be held to account,” the president said in an ABC News interview.
In light of North Korea’s Oct. 9 test detonation of a nuclear bomb, Bush warned that any transfer of nuclear material elsewhere in the world by the North would be considered a grave threat to the security of the United States. He previously used “grave threat” in relation to
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, whose government was toppled in the U.S.-led war in 2003.“If we get intelligence that they’re about to transfer a nuclear weapon, we would stop the transfer, and we would deal with the ships that were taking the — or the airplane that was dealing with taking the material to somebody,” the president said.
Asked how he would retaliate, Bush would not be specific, “You know, I’d just say it’s a grave consequence.”
Make No mistake about it. If North Korea provokes the United States in this manner then there will be a military conflict, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons on North Korea’s nuclear facilities.
Stay tuned……
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