N.Korea ousts U.N. monitors, to restart atom bomb plant
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080924/wl_nm/us_korea_north_iaeaint
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The Stalinist state said on Friday it was working to restart the Yongbyon atomic complex it had been dismantling since last November under a disarmament-for-aid agreement with five powers.
Olli Heinonen, the International Atomic Energy Agency's head of non-proliferation safeguards, told a closed meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors that monitors were forced to leave the plutonium facility this week...
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aschneider
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Great, just what we need before the elections, another deadly distraction.
- 3 years ago
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aschneider
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extblues
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The North Koreans have enough nuclear material to make a few "dirty" nukes (...essentially fifty-five gallon drums filled with radiological waste surrounded by enough conventional explosives to spread it over a wide area...something any spy satellite could pick up from orbit) but not the genuine article. The rationale for this is simple: if they really had a functioning weapon they would have detonated by now in order to secure their place on the world stage as a major (...or more dangerous, at least) world power.
All of this strikes me as an attempt to take advantage of weakened relations between the six major nations involved in the process of dismantling their nuclear program. Unfortunately, the most likely consequence of all of this is the interruption of food and energy shipments to the people of North Korea who have been in desperate need ever since Kim (...or whoever is running the show right now) started flexing his muscles.
- 3 years ago
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extblues
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pakazak
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Yet the current leadership in this country continue to beat the drums of war against Iran......
North Korea already has enough material for approximately 6 nuclear weapons.
oh yeah, no oil in Korea, forgot that for a moment. - 3 years ago
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