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• U.S.-North Korea Nuclear Weapons Deal Falling Apart: ; Analysis

WASHINGTON - A rare foreign policy success for the Bush administration is imploding as North Korea backs away from pledges to abandon nuclear weapons, pretty much as the president's critics on the right had warned. Distracted by an economic crisis at home and a series of diplomatic setbacks abroad, President Bush and his top aides are watching the collapse of a painstakingly negotiated process that just months ago seemed on track to produce a major international success and perhaps bring a final end to the Korean War before they leave office.

• Charleston Gazette
• September 22, 2008

• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

It was hardly a surprise that almost immediately following the Monday announcement that North Korea had agreed to relinquish its nuclear weapons there would be 1) euphoria in hailing the agreement as a "victory" for the United States, (2) suggestions of some degree of moral equivalence between Pyongyang and Washington and 3) North Korea would attempt to change the terms of the agreement it had just reached, accusing the Bush administration of plotting its destruction. In the accord, Washington declared that "it has no nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula and has no intention to attack or invade" North Korea "with conventional or nuclear weapons." South Korea reaffirmed its commitment not to receive or deploy nuclear weapons, "while affirming that there exist no nuclear weapons within...

• The Washington Times
• September 23, 2005

• North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program Data and Information Available at Nti.Org

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reporters and analysts writing on the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, its nuclear wea...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 19, 2011

• Principles and Process

The five NPT nuclear-weapon states have not used the year since the Prague speech to send clear signals about a decreasing role for nuclear weapons, and the cases of Iran and North Korea are poisoning the preconference atmosphere. The goals and promises that secured the indefinite extension of the treaty in 1995 have been broken, delayed, or unfulfilled: a fissile material cutoff treaty (FMCT), the CTBT, the disarmament objectives, and the Middle East agreement.1 Similarly, after 2000 all these and many additional agreements were left hanging: the diminishing role of nuclear weapons, their operational status, tactical nuclear weapons, the Conference on Disarmament (CD) process.

• Arms Control Today
• Vol. 40 Nbr. 3, April 2010

• North Korea has Turned Fuel Rods Into Nuclear Weapons, Official Says

UNITED NATIONS - North Korea has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said Monday. Warning that the danger of war on the Korean peninsula "is snowballing," Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon blamed the United States for intensifying threats to attack the communist nation and destroying the basis for negotiations to resolve the dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear program.

• Charleston Gazette
• September 28, 2004

• Remarks During a Meeting with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines and an Exchange with Reporters

Subjects: Asian Nations, Association of Southeast (ASEAN); Burma : Democracy and human rights issues; Economy, national : Recession, effects; Employment and unemployment : Job losses; Massachusetts : Harvard University professor, arrest; North Korea : Nuclear weapons development; Philippines : Counterterrorism efforts; Philippines : Mindanao peace process; Philippines : President; Philippines : President ; Philippines : Relations with Asia ; Philippines : Relations with U.S.

• Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents
• October 15, 2009

• 2: The Axis of Upheaval: Iraq, Iran and North Korea

Bee discusses how in his 2002 State of the Union Address, the first after 9/11, Pres Bush called Iraq, Iran and North Korea the "axis of evil," accusing these states of seeking nuclear weapons, whose sale or transfer to terrorists would directly threaten the US. In so doing, the President proclaimed a major focus--if not the major focus--of his Administration was to protect the US from terrorists, and by extension, those states that harbor them or could supply them with weapons of mass destruction.

• Headline Series
• Nbr. 328/329, April 2006

• China Loves Carrots; We Need Sticks: ; China Is Pursuing Its Economic Ends at Others' Expense

WASHINGTON - By all appearances, last week's visit of Chinese president Hu Jintao to Washington changed little in the lopsided American-Chinese relationship. What we have is a system that methodically transfers American jobs, technology and financial power to China in return for only modest Chinese support for important U.S. geopolitical goals: the suppression of Iran's and North Korea's nuclear weapons programs.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 25, 2011

• Peace Action Experts On Foreign Policy: Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons Free Zones Available for Comment

News Advisory: Peace Action's executive director and political director, experts on foreign policy: Iraq, Iran, North Korea and nuclear weapons free zones are available for phone interviews or in- person interviews in New York City.

• U.S. Newswire
• February 06, 2006

• Bombs away? Even as Iran, North Korea, and terrorists race to get them, President Obama says his goal is a world free of nuclear weapons. Six decades after hip, Oshima, is it possible?

Early in August 1945, near the end of World War II, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two b...

• New York Times Upfront
• Vol. 142 Nbr. 2, September 2009