S. Korea Backs Civilian N-Programme for DPRK--

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch up now at http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical
Tomorrow at Buzzflash.com


2//The News International, Pakistan Friday August 12, 2005-- Rajab 06, 1426 A.H.

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2005-daily/12-08-2005/world/w5.htm



S. KOREA BACKS CIVILIAN N-PROGRAMME FOR DPRK



SEOUL: South Korea’s point man on North Korea defied the United States on Thursday and supported the Stalinist country’s demand for the right to maintain a civilian nuclear programme.



Six-country talks on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme in exchange for diplomatic and economic benefits went into recess last Sunday. They are deadlocked over Pyongyang’s demand to build nuclear power plants even if it disarms, something Washington flatly rejects.



"Our position is that North Korea’s demand for the right to maintain a peaceful nuclear programme should be allowed as its natural right," said South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-Young. Chung said that if Pyongyang returned to the non-proliferation treaty, it would be qualified to have a civilian nuclear programme.



He admitted that without US approval, it would be impossible for a project to go ahead to build light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea to generate electricity. But Chung said maintaining nuclear reactors for peaceful purposes would be "North Korea’s basic right."



"On this point we have different views from the United States," he said in an interview with Internet news provider Media Daum. Analysts said Chung was urging Washington to be flexible when it returns to the table in Beijing in the week of August 29.



"Chung is sending a message to Washington that it should be flexible and make concessions for progress in six-party talks," said Korea University professor Nam Sung-Wook. South Korea offered in June to supply its isolated neighbour with large supplies of electricity should it renounce nuclear weapons.

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[ConcernedCanuk]

1. So the US reneged/stalled on a '94 deal that started this mess??

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From the posted Article:

"Under a 1994 deal known as the Agreed Framework, which ended a previous weapons showdown, the United States agreed to provide fuel for North Korea until an international consortium built light-water nuclear reactors to generate power."

Sooo

the way I read THAT

is not only did the nuclear reactors NOT get built ( a deal made 11 years ago) the US cut of the fuel and has been an insulting pain in the ass to the DPRK to boot?

Whatever else one may want to say/feel about North Korea - you can't really blame them on this nuclear energy thing

and if I were in the Koreans' shoes, I wouldn't be giving up any nuclear defense system I may have or be developing.

What the world let happen in Iraq at the United States demand is enough justification for any country to maintain or develop ANY defense it can.

And unlike the USSA's military, which is for aggression, not defense: the North Korean weapons are for defense, not aggression.

When was the last time North Korea attacked a defenseless country??

eh??

How many countries do the North Koreans have their troops in, eh??

ONE of the reasons that the DPRK pisses the USA off is that they don't have Murikkkan troops in their country

Heck, the Murrikkkans even got their troops in Canada . . .

We are in much more danger from the USSA than we ever were, or will be from North Korea . . . .

I'm starting to worry myself here . .

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