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The Cold Water North Korea Never Threw Posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 But what's being touted as an agreement is simply the principal parties committing to paper what they've insisted upon all along: in north Korea's case, that it's willing to give up its nuclear weapons program, if the US stops rattling its nuclear saber, and normalizes relations; and in the US's case, that it has no intention of attacking, and that north Korea must junk it nuclear weapons, rejoin the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), and readmit international inspectors. The sticking point is "sequencing" -- will north Korea give up its nuclear weapons program first, or only after the US normalizes relations and provides a surrogate for the energy generated by the nuclear reactor that will have to be shut down as part of the deal? The US wants north Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program now, in return for the US pledging to talk about normalized relations and energy assistance at some later date, while north Korea says it can't dismantle its nuclear weapons without relations being normalized and the energy lost by shutting down its nuclear facilities replaced. Yet, when Pyongyang said the US shouldn't dream of the Yongbyon reactor being shut down before a new (proliferation-resistant) light-water reactor had been built, newspapers said the deal was being scuttled by a duplicitous north Korea, though north Korea was only repeating what has been a long-held position. Full Article : trinicenter.com |
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