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...does his best work by moonlight. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and chief negotiator at the six-party North Korean nuclear talks had a Chinese draft proposal in hand that could jump-start the long-stalled negotiations. The proposal offered Pyongyang the possibility of a light-water reactor for producing electrical power in the future if it agreed to completely dismantle its nuclear programs, both military and civilian. But Hill needed assurances from the other delegations?China, Russia, Japan, South Korea?that they would not help North Korea get the reactor until international inspectors verified that Pyongyang had kept...
...provided the foundation, and Hill and Rice closed the deal. At around noon on Sept. 19 the delegations released the Chinese-authored statement of principles, and Pyongyang agreed to abandon its nuclear programs in exchange for security, economic and energy benefits that included the possibility of the light-water reactor. No specific dates for disarmament have been set, and barely hours passed before Pyongyang and Washington were sniping at each other over the details. North Korea declared that the U.S. "should not even dream" that it would dismantle its nuclear programs before receiving a new plant. But for the first...
...nonsensical economics, Iran’s history clearly demonstrates that it cannot be trusted to develop nuclear technology that can easily be converted to military use. The nation hid development of a gas centrifuge cascade that could be used to make weapons-grade uranium and development of a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for several years...
...also dropped its demand that North Korea abandon its hopes for peaceful nuclear power. The statement affirmed North Korea's "right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy," and said the six parties in the talks would consider assisting North Korea in building a light-water reactor "at an appropriate time." (Light-water reactors produce fewer materials that can be used in nuclear weapons than other types.) Chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill told reporters at a briefing that the U.S. would consider the light-water reactor issue "when North gets rid of its nuclear weapons and all of its existing programs...
...implemented, the blueprint released Monday will yield an agreement nearly identical to the "Agreed Framework" negotiated by the Clinton Administration in 1994, which President Bush all but rejected in 2001. In that agreement, the U.S. also promised aid, a light-water reactor and the possibility of normal relations in exchange for a guarantee from North Korea that it would mothball its nuclear weapons program. After a strategic review of that framework, however, the U.S. accused North Korea of carrying on a secret program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons; North Korea then accused the U.S. of failing to live...