NKorea considers return to nuclear talks, reportedly restoring facilitiesOctober 6th, 2009 NKorea considers return to nuclear talksPYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea's leader is offering to return to multinational disarmament talks in a renewed effort to draw Washington into one-on-one talks that the United States has yet to fully embrace. Kim Jong Il's offer, reported Tuesday by North Korean state media, reflects Pyongyang's desire for direct engagement with Washington.
North Korea almost finished rebuilding nuclear facility: ReportOctober 5th, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea appears to be in the final stage of restoring a previously disabled nuclear facility, South Korean media reported Tuesday. "There are signs that the restoration of the Yongbyon facility is in its final stage," the Yonhap news agency quoted a government source as saying.
Report: NKorea in final stage of restoring nuclear facilitiesOctober 5th, 2009 Report: NKorea nearly restores atomic facilitiesSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is in the final stage of restoring its nuclear facilities, a news report said Tuesday, as leader Kim Jong Il expressed a conditional willingness to end Pyongyang's boycott of international nuclear talks. South Korean and U.S.
South Korea says reports of North Korea preparing for 3rd nuke test 'absurd'September 14th, 2009 SEOUL - South Korea has rejected reports claiming that North Korea is preparing for a third nuclear. "(We) haven't heard of anything like that, which thus cannot be confirmed," Korea's Yonhap News Agency quoted a senior Chinese Government official, as saying.
North Korea says it's in final phase of uranium enrichmentSeptember 3rd, 2009 SEOUL - North Korea said Friday that it was entering the final phase of uranium enrichment and was reprocessing plutonium for nuclear weapons from spent fuel rods. "Experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted and entered into the completion phase," North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency reported, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
Chronology of North Korea's missile programJuly 2nd, 2009 Chronology of North Korea's missile programDevelopments in North Korea's missile program:
— Aug. 31, 1998: North Korea fires suspected missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean, calling it a satellite.
Clinton calls North Korean resumption of nuclear talks 'implausible, if not impossible'April 30th, 2009 Clinton: North Korean return to talks implausibleWASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it is "implausible, if not impossible" that North Korea will return to international talks on ending its nuclear ambitions. Clinton's pessimistic response came during a Senate hearing Thursday as she was asked why the Obama administration is requesting money for aid to North Korea.
Chronology of North Korea's nuclear and missile programsApril 25th, 2009 Chronology of NKorea's nuclear, missile programsA timeline of nuclear and missile developments in North Korea:
— 1994: Under agreement with U.S., North Korea pledges to freeze and eventually dismantle its nuclear weapons program in exchange for help building two safer power-producing nuclear reactors. — Aug. 31, 1998: North Korea fires suspected missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean, calling it a satellite.
Clinton hopes to resume talks with North Korea on its nuclear ambitionsApril 25th, 2009 Clinton hopes to resume nuclear talks with NKoreaBAGHDAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington hopes to resume talks with North Korea over its nuclear ambitions.
North Korea says it has restarted its nuclear facilities to harvest weapons-grade plutoniumApril 25th, 2009 N. Korea says it has restarted nuclear facilitiesSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has restarted its nuclear facilities to harvest weapons-grade plutonium, an official said Saturday, in an escalation of the communist state's standoff with the international community over its nuclear and missile programs. The move "will contribute to bolstering the nuclear deterrence for self-defense in every way to cope with the increasing military threats from the hostile forces," the North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said in comments carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
UN nuclear body says NKorea could restart nuclear facility within monthsApril 20th, 2009 UN says NKorea could restart nuclear facilityBEIJING — The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says North Korea could restart its nuclear facility within months, but that he hopes negotiations on halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions can be revived. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El-Baradei said Monday "it could be a question of months" when asked how soon North Korea could restart its nuclear facility.
IAEA inspectors leave North KoreaApril 16th, 2009 VIENNA - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced its inspectors left North Korea Thursday, after Pyongyang reacted to a UN Security Council condemnation by telling them to return to Vienna. The arrival of the four nuclear experts in Beijing marked the end of a 19-month period in which the IAEA observed that North Korea's nuclear facilities remain turned off, as agreed in a six-party deal that includes the US.
North Korea stops IAEA nuclear inspectionsApril 15th, 2009 VIENNA - North Korea informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Tuesday that it would stop all cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog immediately, IAEA spokesman Marc Vidricaire said. IAEA inspectors are present in North Korea to monitor that the country's nuclear installations remain dismantled and turned off.
North Korea has 100 tonnes of uranium: officialJanuary 20th, 2009 MOSCOW - North Korea has about 14,800 unused fuel rods, the equivalent of just over 100 tonnes of uranium, a South Korean news agency reported Tuesday. 'North Korea asked us to focus on the issue of unused fuel rods,' South Korea's deputy chief nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook told reporters after returning from a five-day visit fact-finding mission to decide whether to buy the rods.
'North Korea will not quit nuclear programme under US threat'January 16th, 2009 PYONGYANG - North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons programme under US threat, a foreign ministry spokesman said here Saturday. 'If there is something to be desired by us (North Korea), it is not normalisation of relations with the US, but to boost nuclear deterrent in every possible way,' the official KCNA news agency quoted the spokesman as saying.
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