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Crossing The Line.(America on North Korea nuclear capacity)(Brief Article)
The Bush Administration refuses to call it a "red line," but that's the message it's sending to North Korea as the Stalinist state inches closer to reviving its nuclear site at Yongbyon. The red line in question is the reprocessing that could turn the North's 8,000 spent fuel rods into enough weapons-grade plutonium to produce six nukes. In Asia last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell told Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul to pass on a message to Kim Jong Il: don't start your reprocessing plant. "I think they've all been in touch with North Korea about the danger of moving forward," Powell told reporters.
Some administration officials say they refuse to call it a red line because it would look as if Washington were threatening military strikes. Others admit there is a far ...
- North Korea criticizes US for setting "red line" over nuclear activities.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 12, 2004 700+ words
...said to have recently set some kind of a nuclear-related "red line" [Korean: haengdong hangyeso'n] against the DPRK [Democratic...its own nuclear crimes, arbitrarily set the so-called "red line" and dares to talk about a military strike, preposterously...
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- Magazine article from: Arms Control Today Paik, Haksoon May 1, 2003 700+ words
...generation. In addition, if North Korea were to develop a nuclear weapons...on the other hand, will cross North Korea's red line if it places UN sanctions or additional sanctions of its own on North Korea. Such a step would likely provoke...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor February 11, 2005 700+ words
...and South Korea. After all, North Korea's increasingly desperate communist...their starving people. Still, North Korea crossed a red line in international diplomacy Thursday...nuclear weapons and act as if North Korea does possess a viable atomic...
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- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 3, 2005 700+ words
...and the White House's North Korea policy will unfold against...government has set for its "red line" North Korea's exports of nuclear technology...than 90 per cent certain North Korea has crossed this "red line". Since the 11 September...
- It's time to move on North Korea negotiations.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Sneider, Daniel August 1, 2003 700+ words
...moment of truth. It's not Iraq. It's North Korea. North Korea is crossing the red line toward developing nuclear weapons. While intelligence...warns former Defense Secretary William Perry, North Korea will probably have enough plutonium to make...
- It's time to move on North Korea negotiations.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 30, 2003 700+ words
...moment of truth. It's not Iraq. It's North Korea. North Korea is crossing the red line toward developing nuclear weapons. While intelligence...warns former Defense Secretary William Perry, North Korea will probably have enough plutonium to make...
- Dealing with North Korea demands cool heads.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 15, 2003 700+ words
...between the United States and North Korea. Having first raised tensions...development program, it now seems North Korea has gone beyond the red line drawn by the United States...officials say they believe North Korea has begun reprocessing spent...
- Nuclear North Korea: How Real is the Threat?
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 6, 2003 700+ words
...a try at talking North Korea out of taking this...not to cross this red line. BLITZER: We have...own policy towards North Korea. We at the moment...for dealing with North Korea. We haven't drawn a red line. We haven't talked...
- White House Publicly Admitted U.S. Has Little Leverage Over North Korea After...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 1, 2006 700+ words
...matter is that through the 1990s, North Korea didn't make any nuclear weapons...experts say the failure to prevent North Korea from pursuing a nuclear bomb can...U.S. continues to move the red line, North Korea no longer takes its threats seriously...
- Japanese paper says US considering action against North Korea.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 9, 2004 700+ words
...States has set a "red line" North Korea should not cross...will be taken against North Korea if it hands over nuclear...from setting the "red line" because of concerns that it might provoke North Korea to escalate its nuclear...
Source: HighBeam Research, Crossing The Line.(America on North Korea nuclear capacity)(Brief...