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	Nuclear Weapons Program - North Korea
		North Korea maintains uranium mines with an estimated four million tons of exploitable high-quality uranium ore. Information on the state and quality of their mines is lacking, but it is estimated that the ore contains approximately 0.8% extractable uranium.
		At least two of the estimates are said to be based on the assumption that North Korea removed fuel rods from the 5-MW(e) reactor and subsequently reprocessed the fuel during slowdowns in the reactor's operations in 1990 and 1991.
		In October 2002, North Korean officials acknowledged the existence of a clandestine program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons that is in violation of the Agreed Framework and other agreements.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/dprk/nuke (3083 words)

	North Korea and weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and is widely believed to have a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons, deliverable by artillery against South Korea.
		The Korean War, initiated by a North Korean invasion of the South, was fought from June 25, 1950 until a cease-fire was declared on July 27, 1953.
		On August 28, 2003, North Korea announced at six-nation talks in Beijing that it was prepared to "declare itself formally as a nuclear weapons state," and claimed to have the means to deliver nuclear weapons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Korea_nuclear_weapons_program (2863 words)

	Nuclear Weapons Program - North Korea
		The north has always argued that while they're interested in economic reform, they need to leverage the security threat because they're not certain that the intentions of the rest of the world are really benign in terms of negotiating with North Korea.
		The nuclear program can be traced back to about 1962, when the DPRK government committed itself to what it called "all-fortressization," which was the beginning of the hyper militarized North Korea of today.
		It is estimated that North Korea has completed the nuclear fuel cycle from acquisition to reprocessing of nuclear fuel and is on the threshold of a nuclear weapons capability.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/dprk/nuke.htm (1318 words)

	MILNET:
		The chemical program in North Korea is booming, being one of the hottest consumers of GNP in North Korea, this while the rest of the economy flounders and aid for starving North Koreans continues to pour into the country.
		North Korean military personnel are trained and practiced in fighting in contaminated environment, with front line troops (border of North and South Korea) fully outfitted for fighting in chemical or biological conditions.
		North Korea's 200-megawatt plant and a 50-megawatt plant -- were frozen in the early stages of construction in 1994 when they agreed to halt their construction in a agreement that we now know they did not honor -- instead continuing their nuclear research in secret.
	www.milnet.com /n-korean-threat.htm (1446 words)

	North Korea Nuclear Weapons - Center for Defense Information
		On Jan. 10, North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), an international accord prohibiting the acquisition and proliferation of nuclear weapons.
		North Korea's uranium enrichment program, were it to continue, could produce highly-enriched uranium sufficient for nuclear weapons in roughly five years, depending on available technology.
		North Korea also likely sees its nuclear weapons program as a means to get leverage to extract economic concessions in negotiations with the United States and even its nuclear-armed neighbors, Russia and China.
	www.cdi.org /nuclear/nk-fact-sheet.cfm (1873 words)

	Fighting Proliferation, chapter 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Specifically, the North Koreans have kept in storage the 8,000 fuel rods that were taken out of the reactor in the spring of 1994 instead of reprocessing them to extract plutonium sufficient for making some five or six bombs.
		That is, North Korea has permitted IAEA inspectors to remain permanently at Yongbyon with access to the reactor construction site nearby at Taechon to implement the freeze and to verify and monitor on a daily basis that the freeze remains in effect.
		North Korea also has permitted a US technical team to visit the Yongbyon complex to do surveys of measures necessary to stabilize the spent fuel so that it can be stored until removed from North Korea, as required by the agreement.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/aupress/Books/b-19/b19ch8.htm (3534 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Confronting Ambiguity: How to Handle North Korea's Nuclear Program
		North Korean officials reportedly admitted the existence of a nuclear weapons program and began a series of steps to pressure the United States to negotiate with them, despite the U.S. government’s insistence that it would not “reward bad behavior” with concessions.
		North Korean leaders may have concluded that nuclear weapons are the only way to guarantee regime survival in the face of such threats.
		North Korean leaders are willing to negotiate their nuclear and missile programs away for a deal that guarantees their security and sovereignty.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2003_03/saunders_mar03.asp (4929 words)

	DPRK Briefing Book: Agreed Framework- The Nautilus Institute
		A North Korean diplomat who defected to the ROK in 1991 informed officials in Seoul that the DPRK had no intention of signing the IAEA safeguards agreement, and was only using the offer to sign as a ploy to gain more time to develop its nuclear weapons program.
		North Korea objected to this inspection plan, and, once agreement was reached with the IAEA on inspections, North Korea informed the ROK that this IAEA agreement resolved all inspection issues.
		North Korea agreed to freeze the construction of the two nuclear reactors at Yongbyon while the LWRs are being built, to forego reprocessing any more plutonium, and to seal what the North referred to as its "radiochemical laboratory" but what the IAEA suspected was a reprocessing plant.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/DPRKbriefingbook/agreedFramework/Berry.html (12886 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Q&A: N Korea nuclear agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		North Korea claims to have nuclear weapons and to be working on building up its arsenal.
		North Korea has said it has already finished reprocessing these fuel rods, although South Korean and US intelligence are unsure whether to believe that claim.
		North Korea agreed to halt all its nuclear activities and in due course allow full inspections of its materials and facilities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2340405.stm (860 words)

	The Agreed Framework with the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea
		An unchecked nuclear capability in the North, coupled with its oversized conventional force, could be used for extortion or flmail against the ROK as well as greatly increasing the costs of a war in Korea.
		Under the Agreed Framework the DPRK's nuclear program is halted, the IAEA resolves the nuclear past, spent fuel with 25 to 30 kilograms of plutonium is removed from the country, and the graphite-moderated nuclear weapons related facilities are dismantled.
		The benefits to us and to the world of peacefully ending the North Korean nuclear weapons program far outweigh the costs of the benefits North Korea will derive particularly when compared with the alternative, which would be a return to sanctions and the risk of war, or acquiescing to an uncontrolled nuclear weapons program.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/strforum/SF_23/forum23.html (1565 words)

	Council for a Livable World: North Korea
		North Korea’s decisions at the end of 2002 to restart nuclear installations at Yongbyon that were shut down under the U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework of 1994 and to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and its multiple missile tests of July 4, 2006, create a foreign policy problem for the United States.
		North Korean has not conducted a nuclear weapon test and there are no IAEA inspectors present to verify a military program.
		North Korea claims that it has a nuclear weapons capability, a claim that is consistent with suspicions that North Korea has separated plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.
	www.clw.org /policy/northkorea (1752 words)

	Web Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		North Korean nuclear scientists are believed to have received training in the Soviet Union.
		North Korea had pledged not to develop nuclear weapons and had agreed to monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency, but by the early 1990's, there was growing evidence that North Korea was secretly flouting its agreements.
		As signs of North Korea's determination to build nuclear weapons mounted, the Clinton administration intervened, and hammered out a new agreement in 1994 aimed at freezing the North Korean nuclear program, particularly plutonium reprocessing at a facility in Yongbyon.
	iskran.iip.net /review/jan03/2gua.html (1154 words)

	The North Korean Nuclear Program
		North Korea has no incentive to voluntarily eliminate this program, and for the United States to do nothing because it believes the North Korean regime will collapse before its nuclear capability is developed is risky.
		If the United States now puts pressure on North Korea, it would send a signal to the rest of the world that proliferators will not be rewarded and, in fact, will pay a price for their attempt to acquire nuclear weapons.
		For its part, North Korea would be asked to eliminate its nuclear weapons program, allow full-scope IAEA inspections, and implement the South-North Agreement, a reconciliation and nonproliferation agreement with South Korea.
	www.rand.org /pubs/monograph_reports/MR434/index2.html (1629 words)

	North Korean Nuclear Weapons Development Program
		March 26, 1956 - North Korea signed an agreement with the USSR to participate in the construction and the training program of Dubna Institute for Nuclear Research located near Moscow.
		The North Korean nuclear issue was submitted to the UN Security Council.
		November 28,1994 - The IAEA announced that it confirmed the freezing of nuclear facilities in Yongbyon and Taechon.
	russia.shaps.hawaii.edu /security/korea/nkoreanuclear.html (2325 words)

	North Korea Nuclear Milestones - 1962-2006
		December 1991: North and South Korea agree to denuclearize the peninsula and not to produce, test, receive, deploy or possess nuclear weapon fuel or weapons, or the means to make them.
		June 1994: The IAEA adopts a resolution concluding that North Korea is “continuing to widen its non-compliance… by taking actions which prevent the Agency from verifying the history of the reactor core and from ascertaining whether nuclear material from the reactor had been diverted.” Additionally, the IAEA suspends all non-medical technical assistance to North Korea.
		October 2003: North Korea confirms that in June 2003 it completed reprocessing all of the 8,000 spent fuel rods previously under IAEA safeguards, and announces that all of the plutonium thus derived was being used to increase the size of North Korea’s nuclear deterrent force.
	www.wisconsinproject.org /countries/nkorea/nukemstones06.html (2564 words)

	Nuclear Weapons Program - North Korea
		Tensions between the United States and North Korea have been running especially high since, in early October of 2002, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly informed North Korean officials that the United States was aware that North Korea had a program underway to enrich uranium for use in nuclear weapons.
		North Korea maintains uranium mines with an estimated four million tons of exploitable high-quality uranium ore. Information on the state and quality of their mines is lacking, but it is estimated that the ore contains approximately 0.8% extractable uranium.
		In October 2002, North Korean officials acknowledged the existence of a clandestine program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons that is in violation of the Agreed Framework and other agreements.
	fas.org /nuke/guide/dprk/nuke (2849 words)

	Congressional Record
		A geopolitical answer would suggest that a nuclear device in the hands of North Korea raises the prospect that it would be used or threatened to be used against South Korea.
		North Korea knows that use of a nuclear weapon anywhere would have the most dire consequences.
		But North Korea hasn't even agreed to allow regular inspections to resume--nor is it considering the so-called `special inspections.' Pyongyang has merely agreed that these two types of inspection will be on the agenda at the third round of U.S.-North Korean talks.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/congress/1994_cr/h940224-dprk.htm (1335 words)

	Meeting the 21st Century Security Challenges in Asia
		The North Korean military is still large and quite dangerous, but its ability to sustain military operations for any militarily significant period is questionable.
		For instance, should North Korea decide to test a nuclear weapon, it is unclear what sort of effect it would have on the region.
		Weapons proliferation is a burr under the saddle of the U.S.–China bilateral relationship as well.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/hl913.cfm (1967 words)

	One Hand Clapping
		North Korea boasted publicly for the first time Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and said it will stay away from disarmament talks...
		The N. Korean's announcement that they are done with disarmament talks means nothing because they never actually participated in such talks to begin with.
		A military strike on North Korea's nuclear sites might have been an option in the early 1990's, but today we don't know where the plutonium and the uranium are kept, so a military strike might accomplish little - but trigger a new Korean war.
	www.donaldsensing.com /2005/02/north-korea-has-nukes.html (755 words)

	Committee Defense Review Threat Panel on Asia
		Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) proliferation will continue to be a challenge for the United States, especially in Northeast Asia.
		North Korea could also decide to proliferate its nuclear weapons material and/or technology away from the Korean peninsula.
		Weapons proliferation is a burr under the saddle of the U.S.-China bilateral relationship, as well.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/tst093005a.cfm (2015 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		North Korea has said it now has nuclear weapons, according to US officials.
		In the past, North Korea has privately told U.S. officials that they have a nuclear weapons program, but they had not yet declared having any nuclear weapons.
		North Korea had called for direct talks with Washington and a non-aggression pact after expelling UN inspectors monitoring the Yongbyon nuclear complex.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=88268 (2237 words)

	Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
		To some, nuclear weapons are a scientific achievement that bestows prestige.
		This is the view that has been taken by each of the nuclear weapons states, with the exception of Israel.
		Nuclear Weapons and the Responsibility of Scientists by David Krieger
	www.wagingpeace.org (446 words)

	portland imc - 2002.10.24 - BTL:Bush Reaction to North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program Contrasts Sharply with...
		BTL:Bush Reaction to North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program Contrasts Sharply with...
		George W. Bush came into office openly hostile to a 1994 agreement between the U.S. and North Korea which provided western energy assistance to the impoverished nation in exchange for a pledge from leader Kim Jong II to freeze his government's effort to develop nuclear weapons.
		North Korea admitted to maintaining a covert nuclear program only after U.S. officials confronted them with evidence that they were in violation of the agreement.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2002/10/28936.shtml (422 words)

	North Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		March 2001 -- Stay the Course on North Korea, an ISIS Policy Brief by Holly Higgins, urging the Bush administration to continue to engage North Korea, particularly with respect to the 1994 Agreed Framework.
		October 2000-- Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle, a 324 pp.
		A revised version of this brief was published as Appendix 3 in Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle.
	www.isis-online.org /publications/dprk (838 words)

	ParaPundit: Nicholas Eberstadt on North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program
		North Korea is entirely unlikely to be talked out of its nuclear weapons program.
		Indeed, the practical obstacles to securing an irreversible and verifiable end to Pyongyang's nuclear program through diplomatic negotiations alone are not just formidable, they are overwhelming.
		We can interdict North Korean shipping and trade in hopes of reducing their exports of nuclear materials.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/001614.html (624 words)

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