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DPRK ‘Manufactured’ Nuclear Weapons, To ‘Suspend’ 6-Way Talks for ‘Indefinite Period’
The following statement was broadcast over radio and television in the DPRK on February 10, 2005. We are distributing this text to NAPSNet readers in addition to the text of the KCNA statement of the same date [see: ndr10feb05.html] because a careful reading will show that this text is more strongly stated in some respects than the KCNA version. Pitched at a domestic audience, this statement suggests a higher degree of committal to non-participation in future six party talks and may not be rhetorical bluster or a tactical maneuver, as some (including US Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice) have suggested.
It also suggests that the DPRK leadership is now highly committed to nuclear weapons in terms of its domestic legitimacy and ideological framework, and that it now would be quite difficult to abandon this unifying theme after having announced it so loudly and clearly to its own population.
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 14, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 14, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 14, 2005 I. United States 1. DPRK Nuclear Issue 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Issue 3. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. US, ROK on DPRK Nuclear Issue 5. DPRK on Nuclear Issue 6. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 7. ROK on DPRK Nuclear […]
Not So Fast
Jon Wolfsthal, Associate and Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), writes: “It is possible that North Korea can produce limited amounts of UF6, and the evidence of North Korea’s previous attempts to purchase uranium enrichment technology through the A.Q. Khan supply network seems credible. However, the link between Libya and North Korea appears tenuous, based on what is publicly known.”
Policy Forum 05-11A: Failure or success of a hybrid system?
Ruediger Frank, Professor of East Asian Political Economy at the University of Vienna, writes: “Those who regard a strengthened market system in North Korea as beneficial are well advised to increase the total supply of food. Here, THEY can catch two birds with one stone: improve the humanitarian situation AND support a gradual transformation with the goal of regional security and stability, not regime change per se.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, February 10, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, February 10, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Thursday, February 10, 2005 I. NAPSNet Addendum 1. DPRK on Nuclear Program, Talks Preceding NAPSNet Report I. NAPSNet Addendum 1. DPRK on Nuclear Program, Talks Korean Central News Agency (BBC translating) (“N KOREA’S STATEMENT IN FULL”, None) The following text is the full statement released […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, February 09, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, February 09, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Wednesday, February 09, 2005 I. United States 1. PRC on DPRK Nuclear Program 2. US on DPRK Nuclear Program 3. US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. DPRK on Abductee Issue 5. Japan on DPRK Sanctions 6. Japan on Stealth Sanctions 7. DPRK on Japanese Stealth […]
Policy Forum 05-10A: China’s Worsening North Korean Headache
Kosuke Takahashi, a former staff writer at the Asahi Shimbun and a freelance correspondent based in Tokyo, writes: “Chinese intellectuals suggest that North Korea is increasingly becoming a downright troublesome ally for China in its strategic and political relations. The more Pyongyang delays nuclear talks, the more Beijing loses face in the eyes of the international community as host nation, especially when China strives to promote proactive diplomacy in Asia and elsewhere as a rising economic and political power.”
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, February 08, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, February 08, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Tuesday, February 08, 2005 I. United States 1. US – ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 2. PRC – US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. Japan, ROK, US on DPRK Nuclear Issue 4. DPRK on Nuclear Talks 5. Japan on Abductee Issue 6. DPRK on Abductee […]
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 07, 2005
NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 07, 2005 NAPSNet Daily Report Monday, February 07, 2005 I. United States 1. US on DPRK Nuclear Program 2. ROK, US on DPRK Nuclear Talks 3. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Talks 4. Inter – Korean Aid / Talks 5. ROK on DPRK Nuclear Program 6. DPRK on US Nuclear Program […]