I always appreciate it when Jeffrey plugs my scribbling, but I will add something further. This is a more recent article about North Korea’s nuclear programs. The section on the enrichment program reads: North Korea denies U.S. charges that it has a gas centrifuge-based uranium-enrichment program. Little is known about this program, including the location …
North Korea: Intelligence Under Complexity
by | 2004-12-08 | No Comments
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 enrichment … and lower levels of enrichment …” Josh Marshall says that “precisely what Harrison …
EU-China Joint Declaration on Non-Proliferation and Arms Control
by | 2004-12-08 | No Comments
The EU and China are finishing a summit meeting in The Hague. Most of the attention has focused on China’s efforts to lift a post-Tiananmen arms embargo. Xinhua has a very different emphasis, however, noting that the the summit has produced an EU-China Joint Declaration on Non-Proliferation and Arms Control. Neither the European Union nor …
Iran: The Verification Trap
by | 2004-12-07 | No Comments
The Bush administration may be laying the ground work to sabotage any deal that the EU-3 conclude with Iran regarding the suspension of Tehran’s uranium enrichment program. The grounds? The deal is unverifiable. Obviously, we would all like to see as strong a deal as possible and it’s hard to be against verification. But what …
