Maybe it was the duck, but North Korea is willing to attend Six Party Talks in Beijing the week of July 25. A senior administration official traveling with Secretary Rice told Joel Brinkley at the New York Times that North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan made the announcement during a dinner meeting with …
BOING! State Department May Hit Boeing for 47 LARGE
by | 2005-07-09 | 2 Comments
Dominic Gates at the Seattle Times obtained a draft letter from the State Department to Boeing, notifying the company that Foggy Bottom “has prepared civil charges against Boeing alleging 94 violations of the Arms Control Act because the company sold commercial airliners without obtaining an export license for a tiny gyrochip that has defense applications.” …
Tehran Tourists?
by | 2005-07-08 | No Comments
Let’s hope DPRK-Iran nuclear cooperation goes as well as their football matches. “A non-U.S. diplomat” gave Louis Charbonneau at Reuters “an intelligence report” that concludes “nuclear cooperation between [Iran and North Korea] has apparently increased significantly during the past year as seen in the arrival of an academic delegation from North Korea in Iran and …
Pike: No Yongbyon Construction
by | 2005-07-07 | 3 Comments
A few days ago, I argued that analysts could easily confirm with satellite imagery whether or not North Korea had resumed construction of the 50 MWe reactor at Yongbyon and the 200 MWe reactor at Taechon—something the North Koreans told John Lewis they had done. John Pike, at Global Security.org has done just that for …
