Tokyo has shown keen interest in the disclosure as it suggests Pyongyang was providing nuclear technology to Damascus in violation of an agreement made at six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue not to transfer nuclear materials, technology or know-how.
According to the sources, Olmert told Fukuda that the site was a nuclear-related facility that [...]

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An escalating war of words across the world’s last Cold War, nuclear-armed border spiraled dramatically yesterday when North Korea threatened to wreak total destruction on its neighbour to the south.
“Our military will not sit idle until warmongers launch a pre-emptive strike,” the official news agency in Pyongyang reported a senior military commander as saing, “everything [...]

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North Korea fired several short-range missiles off its west coast on Friday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing unnamed sources.
The move comes a day after North Korea expelled South Korean officials working at a joint industrial complex north of the heavily armed border in retaliation for a hardline stance taken towards Pyongyang by South [...]

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North Korea admitted to sending engineers to military- related and other facilities in Syria during its recent talks with the United States over its nuclear program, diplomatic sources in New York said Friday.
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 North Korea said Monday that annual U.S.-South Korean military exercises that began over the weekend could further delay progress on ending the North’s nuclear weapons programs.Although such criticism from the Communist country is routine, it dampened hopes for warmer ties between the United States and North Korea, which had risen following the New York Philharmonic’s [...]

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The Syrian connection has become a major problem for the United States since an Israeli air strike in Syria in September. The target was widely reported to be a nuclear facility under construction with help from North Korea. Current and former U.S. officials said yesterday that intelligence points to a plutonium-related facility.
Yesterday, Mr. Hill said [...]

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US, North Korean Envoys in Beijing Talks
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Hill said he would also meet China’s nuclear envoy in Tokyo later this week in a bid to push the process forward. “We’re going to work very hard on it in …
US urges N Korea to disclose all nuclear programs ABC Online
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North Korea helped Syria build an underground nuclear reactor in the Middle East country, a South Korean news report said Monday.
“The U.S. government has circumstantial (evidence) that the North provided technology assistance to build an underground reactor in Syria,” South Korea’s Hankook Ilbo newspaper reported, citing an unidentified diplomatic channel.
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NORTH Korea has slowed nuclear disarmament to a snail’s pace because it has received only part of the energy aid it was promised and does not believe it has made progress towards being removed from the US state terrorism list.
Speaking at the weekend, a delegation of US experts said they had broad access to North [...]

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South Korean and U.S. Intelligence authorities are analyzing the background of the “sharp increase” in North Korea’s military maneuvers involving armored vehicles and fighter jets in recent months, a report said Feb. 10.
The increased military maneuvers by the North arouse suspicions the communist state may have diverted oil aid provided by participating nations at [...]

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MUNICH: North Korea remains a nuclear proliferation risk and China’s military programme lacks transparency, Japan’s Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura warned here Saturday.
“The North Korean issues have made the regional security environment extremely difficult since the beginning of the 1990s,” Koumura told an international security conference in this southern German city. “The international community must continue [...]

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North Korea maintains its uranium enrichment program and remains a nuclear proliferation risk, the top U.S. intelligence official said in his annual threat assessment to Congress.
“We remain uncertain about Kim Jong Il’s commitment to full denuclearization as he promised in the six-party agreement,” Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell told the Senate Intelligence Committee today.
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North Korea threatened to export nuclear weapons to international terrorists in 2005, according to a U.S. intelligence report made public yesterday.
The report to Congress on arms proliferation was produced in 2006 and also said al Qaeda is developing chemical and biological weapons for use in Iraq and Afghanistan and continues to seek nuclear or radiological [...]

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It’s more difficult to get needed electronics items from the West, since guidance system grade stuff is usually considered “military” and requires a lot of additional paperwork to export. As a result, North Korea missile guidance systems have remained quite primitive. The North Koreans have been working with scientists, and manufacturers, in Iran, Syria, and [...]

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In 2005, the president changed policy toward North Korea. After years of withholding tribute and applying pressure, he switched to accommodation. It has not worked. He should revitalize the alliance with Japan and the new South Korean government, and return to a policy of containment.
The failure of the current policy was spelled out by Jay [...]

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Nuclear-armed North Korea used UN-linked bank accounts to secretly transfer funds in connection with alleged weapons sales, a US Senate probe showed Thursday. The investigation was held following media reports last year about alleged mismanagement in the operations in North Korea of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the largest UN development agency. The [...]

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North Korea’s missed deadline on its denuclearization pact and new tough rhetoric revive diplomatic concerns about the regime’s sincerity and stability.
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US special envoy on North Korean human rights Jay Lefkowitz has broken ranks with the State Department’s engagement policy, warning that Pyongyang intends to keep its nuclear weapons beyond the end of George W.Bush’s presidency.
“North Korea is not serious in disarming in a timely manner,” Mr Lefkowitz said in a speech and comments implicitly questioning [...]

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North Korean President Kim Jong-il will soon celebrate his 66th birthday amid widespread, though unconfirmed, rumors of deteriorating health. The Kim regime is unquestionably the world’s most anachronistic government, and even absent rumors of his imminent death, Kim’s totalitarian regime will eventually join the corpses of the Soviet Union, East Germany and other former dictatorships. [...]

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The report says its unnamed Chinese sources see North Korea as stable for the moment, “but they worry that the potential for instability may grow.”
Meanwhile, U.S. and South Korean military planners were scheduled to complete by the end of 2007 a contingency plan for controlling the spread of weapons of mass destruction and dealing with [...]

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North Korea said on Friday it would boost its war deterrent, a day after the United States said it was sending its nuclear envoy back to Asia to discuss an atomic disarmament deal on which Pyongyang has missed a deadline.
North Korea failed to fully account for its nuclear weapons programme or answer U.S. suspicions that [...]

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