UNITED STATES SEES STALLING BY NORTH KOREA ON
NUCLEAR PLANTSThere is a debate within the Bush
Administration over how long it can exersise patience with the alledged stallling of North Korea (NK) when it comes to the dismantling of its nuclear facilities.It seems that North Korea is stalling, maybe trying to wait until the Bush Administration''s term expire come January 2009. While both the allies of the present administration and the critics of the said Nuclear
Agreement are at log head with each other, Pres. Bush together with the Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice are in unison in supporting the said agreement still following the advise of North Korean Nuclear Chief Negotiator Christopher Hill to continue the administration''s restrained approach.The proliferation issue has taken importance September last year after a team of US and Israeli officials discovered nuclear material supplied by N.K. in a nuclear facility near the Euphrates river in Syria just following the attack of Israeli forces on the said country.The Bush Administration''s critics said that unless N.K. follow the October Nuclear Agreement i.e. first, the disclosure of the number of warheads; second, the number of
materials produced; and third, the need to disclose that they (N.K.) passed materials to other
countries, we should make a firmer stand.On the North Korean side, they are saying that it is the U.S. that reneged on their promise,including the shipment of 1 million
tons of fuel and the removal of North Korea. from the list of state that sponsored terrorism.So far, North Korea have received 150,000 tons of fuel, and the removal from the list will depend on North Korea''s meeting the demand.President Bush on his part reached out directly to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, holding out a prospect of a normalized relation between the two countries.
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