From Bloomberg: “North Korea will submit an early list of its nuclear programs within two weeks. . . Christopher Hill said.” The real questions are; will the declaration include uranium and will it be credible?
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October 26th, 2007 at 2:10 am
I can pretty much say ‘we do not know’ to each of those questions, but it is a good guess the answer is probably no.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:44 am
If it turns out North Korea submits a suspect declaration and the Bush admin accepts it happily, I’ll have to get semi-activist about it. It would be no better than – and probably worse than – what then Clinton admin did in the late 1990s, when it ignored reports of the then new uranium program, sent Albright, etc. And I don’t really have the time for it.