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North Korea Must Dismantle Alleged Uranium-Based Nuclear Weapons Program, U.S. Says
The United States yesterday reiterated its demand that North Korea eliminate its alleged uranium nuclear weapons, the Yonhap news agency reported (see GSN, Oct. 3). “In the case of North Korea, our goal is to preserve the [Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty] by insisting on the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of both the plutonium and the uranium nuclear weapons programs in that country, as well as the dismantlement of all nuclear weapons,” acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Stephen Rademaker told a U.N. General Assembly disarmament committee. The suspected uranium program is not included in the disarmament agreement produced in the last round of six-party talks in Beijing, according to Yonhap (Yonhap, Oct. 4). Rademaker also reaffirmed the Bush administration belief that an international consortium whose mission was to provide two light-water nuclear reactors to North Korea under the defunct 1994 Agreed Framework is no longer needed, the Kyodo news agency reported. “We believe the time has come to shut down KEDO (the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization),” he said. North Korea has demanded light-water reactors for electricity generation in return for nuclear disarmament, though not necessarily under the KEDO framework (Kyodo, Oct. 4).
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