From the Chosun Ilbo: N.Korea Won't Declare Nuclear Weapons This Year.

     North Korea has made it clear in six-nation talks that it will report its nuclear programs but not its nuclear weapons by year's end.

     After the six-party talks came to an end Sunday, the chief North Korean negotiator Kim Kye-gwan reportedly said, "We can't declare nuclear weapons this year, because if we do it at this stage, our nuclear weapons technology level will be revealed." He hinted North Korea wants to keep its nuclear weapons as the last bargaining chip for the negotiations.

     The higher the technology level, the easier it is to produce nuclear weapons even with a small amount of plutonium, an official involved in the six-party talks said. That makes it possible to guess the technology level a country has achieved by looking at the number of nuclear weapons it possesses.

      In recent days I have come to believe that the six party talks and even potential direct US-North Korea negotiations are only a delaying tactic that gives Kim Jong-Il more time to further refine his nuclear arsenal and to spread the nuclear know how he now posseses to Syria and Iran.  Nothing that the Norks do gives one any reason to believe that they will hold up their end of any potential deal.  Their past history tells us that they wil do all that they can to decieve and deny while carrying out the tasks the Dear Leader has set them.  Negotiations and summits at this point only prolong the time until the inevitable colapse of  North Korea.  The US and South Korea would be better served by the confrotational and agressive approach that brought down the Soviet empire that had imeasurably greater economic and human potential compared to the hermits of the north.  By doing so the South can guarantee its continued prosperity and security rather than trying to both appease their beligerent nieghbor while at the sam time providing them with economic and material assistence that weakens the South Korean economy.   We should only negotiate after  Kim Jong-Il and his decrepit empire have fully and truthfully disclosed their nuclear facilities, capabilities and inventory to an impartial third party that has verified the report through unannounced on site inspections.  But I expect that to happen right about the time hell freezes over.

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