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US Says Little Progress After First Full Day Of Nuclear Talks
Beijing (AFP) Sep 14, 2005 The US top envoy to North Korean nuclear disarmament talks said Wednesday that little progress had been made after the first full day of the latest negotiations. "It was a rather lengthy meeting but I must say it was a meeting in which we did not make a lot of progress," Christopher Hill told reporters. "The DPRK (North Korea) is quite insistent that they want to include in the agreement a light water reactor ..." The fourth round of six-party talks resumed this week after a five-week break. They aim to persuade the Stalinist North to give up its nuclear weapons programmes in exchange for security guarantees as well as energy and economic aid. Pyongyang has insisted it has the right to operate peaceful nuclear energy programs and has demanded that the international community complete construction of two light-water reactors. Under a now defunct 1994 agreement, the two light-water reactors were to have been built by a US-led consortium to replace North Korea's existing graphite-moderated reactors, which can produce weapons-grade plutonium. But construction was suspended after the United States in 2002 accused the North of developing a secret uranium-enrichment program. Hill earlier Wednesday ruled out building the reactors for the North, saying they were "very expensive" and "long-term" type of projects. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
World Powers Threaten Defiant Iran Over Nuclear Crisis
Vienna (AFP) Jan 11, 2006World powers threatened Iran with UN Security Council sanctions Wednesday after it resumed sensitive nuclear activities as a defiant Tehran vowed to press ahead with its disputed atomic programme. |
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