N.Korea Demands End to U.N. Sanctions
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:27 pm
North Korea demands end to U.N. sanctions
First 6-country session in more than a year; U.S. issues warning to North
BEIJING - North Korea defiantly proclaimed itself a nuclear power Monday and demanded an end to sanctions before it disarms, while the U.S. said it was running out of patience with the communist regime at the first six-nation arms talks since its nuclear test.
The talks on the North's nuclear program resumed at a Chinese state guesthouse in Beijing after the North ended a 13-month boycott over U.S. financial restrictions. Prospects for progress were uncertain, as North Korea issued a list of preconditions before it would dismantle its atomic program.
Among the North's demands at the talks, involving China, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and the two Koreas, were the lifting of all U.N. sanctions and U.S. financial restrictions, along with being given a nuclear reactor for power generation and energy aid until it is built, according to a summary of opening speeches released by one of the delegations involved.
In its opening comments, the North asserted it is a nuclear power and that the negotiations should be arms reduction talks, repeating its insistence that it be treated on equal footing with the U.S.
If its demands aren't met, the North said it would increase its nuclear deterrent, according to the summary. The U.S. offered in its opening comments to normalize relations with North Korea, but only after it halted its nuclear program.
"North Korea has listed the maximum demands it can make in its speech," a South Korean official said on condition of anonymity due to sensitivity of the talks, adding that the North was taking a "department store approach" in wanting everything on the table.
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This isn't the entire article. Really long and didnt want to post it all.
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I wrote a paper on N.Korea and their nuclear crisis. It was obvious from their history of negotiations that something like this would happen.
First 6-country session in more than a year; U.S. issues warning to North
BEIJING - North Korea defiantly proclaimed itself a nuclear power Monday and demanded an end to sanctions before it disarms, while the U.S. said it was running out of patience with the communist regime at the first six-nation arms talks since its nuclear test.
The talks on the North's nuclear program resumed at a Chinese state guesthouse in Beijing after the North ended a 13-month boycott over U.S. financial restrictions. Prospects for progress were uncertain, as North Korea issued a list of preconditions before it would dismantle its atomic program.
Among the North's demands at the talks, involving China, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and the two Koreas, were the lifting of all U.N. sanctions and U.S. financial restrictions, along with being given a nuclear reactor for power generation and energy aid until it is built, according to a summary of opening speeches released by one of the delegations involved.
In its opening comments, the North asserted it is a nuclear power and that the negotiations should be arms reduction talks, repeating its insistence that it be treated on equal footing with the U.S.
If its demands aren't met, the North said it would increase its nuclear deterrent, according to the summary. The U.S. offered in its opening comments to normalize relations with North Korea, but only after it halted its nuclear program.
"North Korea has listed the maximum demands it can make in its speech," a South Korean official said on condition of anonymity due to sensitivity of the talks, adding that the North was taking a "department store approach" in wanting everything on the table.
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This isn't the entire article. Really long and didnt want to post it all.
If you wish to read the entire article. Heres the link.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16258356/
I wrote a paper on N.Korea and their nuclear crisis. It was obvious from their history of negotiations that something like this would happen.
