Picking up comments by Ambassador Hill at the Foreign Press Center (still not on the website), Peter Baker and Glenn Kessler report in the Washington Post that the Bush Administration plans “to push North Korea to begin disclosing the extent and locations of its secret development programs right away to test the sincerity of Pyongyang’s …
Questions about NORK Centrifuge Program
by | 2005-10-04 | 3 Comments
A former Department of State told Paul Kerr that “North Korea has probably imported enough components for 3,000-5,000 centrifuges and may have acquired enough for 6,000-7,000.” Whether those components have been assembeled into centrifuges or whether North Korea can make UF6 feedstock is another question. Malaysian components produced for Libya’s nuclear weapons program. After talking …
State Department ISN Bureau
by | 2005-10-03 | 1 Comment
Dave Ruppe in Global Security Newswire reports “the U.S. State Department this month quietly began implementing a major reorganization plan to eliminate its arms control and nonproliferation bureaus, despite a U.S. Senate hold on the plan…” Congressional Staff seem bewildered that this notice appeared in the Federal Register issued by the “Bureau of International Security …
