North Korea has turned over thousands of pages of documentation for its plutonium-based nuclear program:
North Korea handed over more than 18,000 pages of nuclear weapons documents to a U.S. diplomat visiting Pyongyang on Thursday that will help verify its plutonium holdings, senior U.S. officials said.
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“We will see if these documents will play a […]
Rather than belligerent insults using archaic English following the Bush administration’s presentation of rather convincing evidence that North Korea was proliferating nuclear technology to Syria, North Korea is offering something to “complement” the declaration of nuclear programs called for in the 13 February 2007 deal:
North Korea has tentatively agreed to give the United […]
During a meeting in P’yŏngyang on 04 October 2002, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minster Kang Seok-Ju admitted to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly that North Korea had a uranium enrichment program. That was the public beginning of the end of the 1994 Agreed Framework.
Now the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has revealed […]
A joint statement (DOC) was issued at the conclusion of the fourth round of Six-Party Talks in September, 2005 that “reaffirmed that the goal of the Six-Party Talks is the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner.” It was hailed, by most, as a great breakthrough in coaxing North Korea to […]
After a few weeks of false tensions manufactured by North Korea (see news links below), some sort of addition to existing agreements may be in the works:
The U.S. and North Korea on Tuesday reached tentative agreement on the declaration of the North’s nuclear programs. . . Chief U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill. . […]
Another rumor in the saga, per the Asahi Shimbun:
An Israeli airstrike against Syria last September targeted a nuclear-related facility that was under construction with technical assistance from North Korea, according to Israel’s prime minister.
Japanese government sources said over the weekend that the Israeli leader, Ehud Olmert, briefed Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda about the […]
Seymour Hersh’s article on the Israeli strike on a Syrian site with ties to North Korea doesn’t do much more than summarize what’s already been discussed, but does point to David Albright hyping the nuclear possibility and then backtracking. If I had a category called “Irony,” this would be in it (background). H/T OneFreeKorea.
In the latest on WTF happened in Syria on 06 September, Al-Jazeera claims the American aircraft – armed with (unused) nuclear weapons – bombed the site in Syria (via the Jerusalem Post):
The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site […]
Commercial satellite photos from 10 August (left) and 24 October (right) show the Syrian facility near the Euphrates River, rumored to be an unfinished nuclear reactor site being constructed with the assistance of North Korea, bombed by Israel in September:
The Syrians claim it was a warehouse; Israel says the fast cleanup of the site […]
According to the latest report, Israel had pics, the CIA helped target, and the U.S. refused to bomb the site due to a lack of evidence of nuclear materials – and the U.S. (and Israel) continues to refuse to discuss the issue (h/t P):
Israel had obtained detailed pictures of a Syrian complex from an […]
Via the Times: "The exhibition features 400 hand-painted posters dating from the peak of the Dear Leader Kim Sung Il's power in the 1950s to the present regime led by his son, Kim Jong Il." The article has only one image, but has several interesting propaganda quotes.
- #Young Korean Herrenvolk engaging in their version of Agoge, at least according to the New York Times. The two Korean schools mentioned in the article are similar to Exeter or Andover in the United States in someways (they are private academies that serve children of affluent parents). But my guess is that the studious atmosphere and intense regimen compare more to the likes of Stuyvesant (my alma mater) in NYC or T.J. in Virginia (both highly selective, but publicly-funded high schools).
- #North Korea claims that on 25 April 1932 the Korean People’s Army (KPA, 조선인민군/ Chosŏn inmin'gun) was formed. However, the more likely accurate date is 08 February 1948. It is celebrated as “Military Foundation Day” in Kimland.
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