North Korea has issued a statement on why it slowed disablement and the hangup with the declaration. The explanation for the slowdown — North Korea is slowing the unloading of fuel rods from Yongbyon, presumably to take the entire 100…
As expected, North Korea missed the deadline for “providing a complete and correct declaration of its nuclear programs.” I say “as expected” in part because this is what Chris Hill told Congress in a closed briefing, according to Chris Nelson,…
Steven Aftergood passes along a little humor from the NORKs, via Xinhua News Agency: “DPRK Slams U.S. Senator’s Hardline Remarks” — Xinhua headline Xinhua Wednesday, December 19, 2007 T09:26:37Z PYONGYANG, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
Andreas Persbo has a great post on disabling the North Korean reactor at Yongbyon: It is going to be chilly in North Korea this week. Temperatures at the Yongbyon nuclear complex will hover around zero degrees Celsius, but it will…
AS Hill says North Korea will submit in days its declaration of activities: I think they will be providing a declaration to the chair of the six parties, that is to the Chinese. And that will be addressed in the…
Pyongyang gets fried chicken delivery for the first time. AP’s Jaesoon Chang explains: Choi Won-ho, head of a fried chicken franchiser that has about 70 restaurants across South Korea, said Friday he is opening a 50-table restaurant in Pyongyang on…
I am doing Bloggingheads with Jackie Shire this morning — I’ll let you know when it is posted. I am wearing my Get Il T-shirt for the occasion. We are going to talk about a lot of things, including the…
Chris Nelson is now convinced of the reactor story, based in part on Chris Hill’s refusal to confirm or deny in Congressional testimony. … a former directly involved official concluded, “today Hill said he couldn’t say, or not. That says…
Mark Mazzetti and Bill Broad have two very good stories on the suspect site in Syria — one placing the leaks in context of Administration internal debates over North Korea; the other reporting on new satellite imagery showing that North…
Susan Crabtree in The Hill reports that John Bolton is lobbying against the North Korea deal: Other top Bush administration officials, such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have criticized Bush since leaving office. But they have refrained from meeting…
