[NukeNet] North Korea Nuclear Deal Is Reached

[Bill Smirnow]

     Good news but the hypocrosy is beyond hypocrosy. Too bad N Korea isn't
overseeing the dismantling of the vastly more dangerous US nuclear arsenal.
I suggest that we write our newspapers, call & fax  media outlets [ see
http://www.fair.org  and check MEDIA ACTIVISM for media contact data]. The
US's failure to live up to it's NPT obligations is obscene as is the failure
of the corporate media to even raise the issue. Write and tell people that
nuclear power is completely unacceptable for obvious reasons as well as
being stationary radiological nuclear weapons. Al Qaeda and other terror
groups ALREADY HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS in the form of commercial nuclear power
facilities. This point has to be beaten into the consciousness of the media
and public. Make it simple: every single commercial nuke facility on the
planet is a free nuclear weapon for Al Qaeda and their brethern.

   Also, many nuke power facilities along the UK coast are threatened to be
inundated with water as sea levels rise. What happens to nuclear power
facilities then? Does anyone have a list of nuclear power facilities, extant
or on the drawing board that will be threatened and/or overrun by rising sea
levels?

  Also, call Rep./Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich and Pres. Candidate
Mike Gravell and ask them to raise these issues during the Presiddential
debates.




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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 3, 2007
Filed at 9:40 a.m. ET

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North Korean Nuclear Talks Close to Consensus (October 3, 2007)
BEIJING (AP) -- North Korea will provide a complete list of its nuclear
programs and disable its facilities at its main reactor complex by Dec. 31,
actions that will be overseen by a U.S.-led team, the six nations involved
in disarmament talks said Wednesday.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei said that as part of the agreement,
Washington will lead an expert group to Pyongyang ''within the next two
weeks to prepare for disablement'' and will fund those initial activities.

''The disablement of the five megawatt experimental reactor at Yongbyon, the
reprocessing plant at Yongbyon and the nuclear fuel rod fabrication facility
at Yongbyon will be completed by 31 December 2007,'' said Wu, who read the
statement from the six nations to reporters, but did not take any questions.

The Bush administration welcomed the agreement, calling it significant
progress.

''These second-phase actions effectively end the DPRK's production of
plutonium -- a major step towards the goal of achieving the verifiable
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,'' said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman
for the White House's National Security Council.

The complex at Yongbyon has been at the center of North Korea's nuclear
weapons programs for decades and is believed to have produced the nuclear
device Pyongyang detonated a year ago to prove its long-suspected nuclear
capability.

Since then, Pyongyang rejoined the six-nation disarmament negotiations that
involve the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea as well as
North Korea. Under a broad agreement reached in February, North Korea
pledged to disable its nuclear programs in return for 1 million tons of
heavy fuel oil or other assistance.

Wednesday's statement outlines the next steps in the February deal. Although
negotiators tentatively agreed on the statement Sunday after four days of
talks, it was forwarded to their capitals for approval, leading to a delay
in its public release.

The statement also said the U.S. and North Korea will ''increase bilateral
exchanges and enhance mutual trust'' but did not set a specific timetable
for when Washington will remove Pyongyang from a list of countries that
sponsor terrorism -- a key North Korean demand. Arrangements will be made in
future meetings between the two on normalizing their relations, the
statement said.

In addition, the statement reiterated the five other countries' commitment
to deliver the fuel oil and other energy and economic assistance as spelled
out in the February deal.

Shortly after Wednesday's deal was announced, however, Japan said it would
not provide aid to North Korea or lift its economic sanctions against the
country because of a dispute over North Korea's past abductions of Japanese
citizens.

''There will be no immediate action from Japan. We will wait to see what
North Korea does next,'' Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said. ''Japan's
policy remains unchanged. We will consider aid once we see progress on the
abductions issue.''

Tokyo wants Pyongyang to account for its abduction of Japanese nationals in
the 1970s and 1980s -- a main sticking point for the two countries, which
have no diplomatic ties.
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