Yeah, or that Libyan UF6 could be from Pakistan. But the International Atomic Energy Agency, which conducted tests on the materials, has not reached the same finding and believes that the evidence is inconclusive. Several experts said the process of…
The Washington Post and New York Times are reporting that the Department of Energy has concluded that North Korea is the source of nearly two tons of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) surrendered by Libya. The New York Times starts strong: [E]xtensive…
Il-matic. ACW Reader DS passes along this nugget, from the Dong-A Ilbo. It pretty much speaks for itself: According to U.S. special envoy to North Korea Jack Pritchard on December 23, the U.S. notified North Korea of the so-called “nuclear…
A couple of days ago, David Sanger and Bill Broad reported that IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei is “now certain that the nuclear material his agency once monitored there has been converted into fuel for four to six nuclear bombs.” Yet…
A careful reader observes that Selig Harrison’s article in Foreign Affairs was advertising for Ending the North Korea Nuclear Crisis, “the report of a high-level Task Force on U.S./Korea Policy [associated with the Center for International Policy] presenting important new…
A North Korean poster from the UCLA Asia Institute. Sig Harrison has a review of intelligence assessments about North Korea’s uranium enrichment program in Foreign Affairs which concludes “those assessments were exaggerated and blurred the important distinction between weapons-grade uranium…
Ever notice that, in Kung Fu movies, some larger number of bad guys will stand around in a circle, allowing the hero to kick their asses one-by-one? Outside of cinema, such accomodation by adversaries is rare. Yet, this seems to…
We’ve all heard the stories: playboy, alocholic, wack-job, etc. Typical is a recent book by one Kenji Fujimoto (a psuedonym), who claims to have been Kim Jong-Ils cook. An excerpt in The Atlantic leaves no doubt that Fujimoto thinks Kim…
Reuters reports that, emboldened by the election, hard-liners “are pressing once again for a more coercive approach” to North Korea if six-party talks fail.” “Much will turn on whether Secretary of State Colin Powell and Assistant Secretary of State James…
Paul Kerr suggests that I need to make clear that there are 2 different time periods during which NK may have reprocessed spent nuclear fuel: before the 1994 Agreed Framework and after the 2002 ejection of inspectors. During the latter…
