Category: north korea

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More Syria Nonsense

ABC’s Martha Raddatz has some detail about the Syrian nuclear facility that suggests to me that she and her sources are confused about nuclear reactors: But the hardest evidence of all was the photographs. The official described the pictures as…

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Syrian "Copy" of Yongbyon?

So, I’ve been keeping my powder dry on this story by Sanger and Mazzetti claiming that Israel struck “a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel …”…

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Bobby Egan on the North Korean Nuclear Test

I did not think it was possible, but Kim Jong Il might not be the most colorful character in the entire saga of US-DPRK relations. For all the Il-iminator’s quirks and foibles, that title clearly belongs Bobby Egan — BBQ…

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Syrian Plutonium?

Jim Hoagland claims a “senior official” says the Israelis struck a “facility … to produce plutonium”: But highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may…

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Nuts and Bolts of DPRK Denuclearization

Chris Hill tells reporters that we are down to the nuts and bolts of a denuclearization agreement. But we are really into the nuts and bolts now of implementing denuclearization, and there are a lot of details that we are…

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Syria-NORK Nuclear Cooperation

Though it has long sold its missile technology — to Syria, Iran, Pakistan and other customers — North Korea has never been known to export nuclear technology or material. Mark Mazzetti and David Sanger, “Israeli Raid on Syria Fuels Debate…

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Disablement, Revisited

Looks like we are starting to get a sense of what “disablement” of the Yongbyon reactor might mean. Chris Hill explains that a US team will visit Yongbyon to conduct a site survey, and hints at some of the disablement…

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More on that Bogus BM-25 Pic

Last week, I wrote that Space Daily tried to pass off a picture of a Russian missile as the “BM-25” which may or may not be North Korea’s newest IRBM. Anatoly Zak writes in to confirm that he took the…

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Bogus BM-25 Pic

The website Spacewar placed this photo (at right) alongside an AFP article about the inclusion of North Korean missile programs in the 6 Party process (“US to look into North Korea’s missile threat,” August 24, 2007). Although the AFP article…