Update: Probably it would have been better to get these answers *before* announcing plans to delist North Korea and remove other trade barriers, as that is what the agreements actually called for:
North Korea did not answer U.S. suspicions of enriching uranium and proliferating technology when it released an inventory of its nuclear plans […]
If ever there was a time to drop the hammer on North Korea for habitually reneging on nuclear deals, now would be the time:
Speaking to reporters in Beijing Saturday, [Sigfried Hecker] said North Korean officials have told him they will not provide a full declaration of the country’s nuclear programs until other countries provide […]
Last Thursday, while addressing at the American Enterprise Institute, Jay Lefkowitz, President Bush’s Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea, stated that, “North Korea is not serious about disarming in a timely manner,” and “It is increasingly likely that North Korea will have the same nuclear status one year from now that it […]
While the comparison of Iraq now to Korea five decades ago is far from perfect, there are indeed several major points that make it an apt enough abstract example. For starters, after WWII until long after the Korean War, the accepted paradigm was that South Korea would remain a good, third-world, source of materials […]
Update 3: North Korea has admitted - for the second time - to having an HEU program. It will be interesting to see what the apologists have to say now.
Update 2: In a sad turn of events, David Albright decides that he is unable answer direct questions pertaining to his accusations, and instead will […]
As Joshua notes, this will be at 9:00 PM EST/8:000 PM CST on 5 March. Probably a must see:
…Explorer correspondent Lisa Ling and a camera crew managed to get inside [North Korea] last year, disguised as part of a medical team traveling with a Nepalese eye surgeon helping cataract victims.
Their footage, packaged with interviews […]
Just kidding:
Iran has no brake and no reverse gear in its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, while a deputy foreign minister vowed Tehran was prepared for any eventuality, “even for war.”
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“Iran has obtained the technology to produce nuclear fuel and Iran’s move is like a train … which has […]
Update 3: North Korea has admitted - for the second time - to having an HEU program. It will be interesting to see what the apologists have to say now.
Update 2: Donk Kirk comments on Albright’s assertions:
Now Albright, back from Pyongyang, which he visited along with Joel Wit, another Washington think-tanker and former State […]
A Reuters source in Beijing, sounding suspiciously like a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman, imparts the warning shot:
North Korea will feel compelled to announce plans for another nuclear test if a financial dispute with Washington is not resolved, a source said on Wednesday, a sign of Pyongyang’s impatience with a lack of progress in talks.
[…]
“If […]
Yesterday Gypsy Scholar commented on an opinion piece in the Washington Times by Robert Carlin and John Lewis titled, “What North Korea Really Wants” (27 Jan). Their argument is that:
Above all, it wants, and has pursued steadily since 1991, a long-term, strategic relationship with the United States. . . The North Koreans believe in […]
From the Dong-a Ilbo: “President of the Families of Abducted and Detained in North Korea, confirmed yesterday at a press conference, ‘A former South Korean soldier surnamed Kim is currently staying in a third country. He crossed the North Korean border at around 10 p.m. on June 14. He joined the South Korean army in August 1951 at age 17. He is now 74 years old.’”
- #GI Korea has an excellent and lengthy post on the background, events, and aftermath of the 2002 accident where a U.S. armored vehicle killed to schoolgirls. I arrived in Korea a few days after the accident, but things didn't start to heat up until two months later, as I was returning to the States.
- #Via Reuters: “…there was strong suspicion a huge shipment of methamphetamines seized at the former U.S. navy base of Subic north of Manila this week came from clandestine drugs laboratories in North Korea.” The Joker took over Batman’s abandoned cave.
- #From TimesOnline: "THE first case of murder and suicide caused by North Korea’s new food crisis has emerged with the account of a man who killed his hungry wife and children and then took his own life in despair." This report can't be confirmed, but it is entirely plausible.
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