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Posted by Monitor on June 13, 2009, 9:36 am
TOP NEWS: North Korea declares all-out push for nuclear weapons
Regime retaliates against fresh UN sanctions by announcing it will
turn all its plutonium into bomb material
Saturday, 13 June 2009
North Korea has declared it will weaponise all its plutonium stocks
and threatened military action against the United States and its
allies after the UN security council imposed new sanctions to punish
Pyongyang for last month's underground nuclear test.
A spokesman for the country's foreign ministry today acknowledged for
the first time that North Korea is developing a uranium enrichment
programme and said it would be "impossible" to abandon its nuclear
ambitions.
In a defiant statement, the spokesman said that "the whole amount of
the newly extracted plutonium [in the country] will be weaponised" and
that "more than one-third of the spent fuel rods has been reprocessed
to date".
The ministry said the country had successfully started a programme to
enrich uranium for a light-water reactor.
The warning came a few hours after the security council unanimously
passed a resolution banning all weapons exports from North Korea and
the import of all but small arms.
North Korea described the sanctions as "yet another vile product of
the US-led offensive of international pressure aimed at
undermining ... disarming DPRK and suffocating its economy".
Unusually the resolution was unanimous, reflecting the extent of anger
within the Chinese government over last month's nuclear test. Normally
it is difficult for the US, Britain and France to persuade China, and
to a lesser extent Russia, to take a tough line against North Korea.
The US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, described the resolution as
"unprecedented" and said the sanctions regime had "teeth that will
bite".
China strongly urged Pyongyang to promote denuclearisation of the
Korean peninsula. China's envoy, Zhang Yesui, said it showed the "firm
opposition" of the international community to North Korea's nuclear
weapons ambitions.
The regime is believed to have enough plutonium for at least six
nuclear bombs. It has around 8,000 spent fuel rods that if reprocessed
could allow the country to harvest 6-8kg of plutonium =96 enough for at
least one nuclear bomb, according to analysts.
The UN resolution authorises all countries to stop and search North
Korean ships for weapons. The US, Britain and France wanted to make
such inspections mandatory for all states but China and Russia watered
this down. The final resolution "calls on" states to carry out weapons
searches.
Even so, the resolution risks standoffs between US and North Korean
ships =96 a danger underlined by North Korea's response. "An attempted
blockade of any kind by the US and its followers will be regarded as
an act of war and met with a decisive military response," the regime
said.
There was no attempt to expand the sanctions to exports and imports of
non-military goods. This is partly because China and Russia would have
been opposed, but also because of fears a collapse of the North Korean
economy would result in a flood of refugees into South Korea.
There have been 15 years of fitful process over North Korea's nuclear
potential. Three years ago, under threat of sanctions, North Korea
entered into international negotiations with the Bush administration
aimed at ending its programme. But the process collapsed. The Obama
administration's main aim is to get North Korea back to the
negotiating table.
The sanctions could complicate attempts to free two US journalists
sentenced on Monday to 12 years' hard labour for filming at the border
between China and North Korea. Pleas have been made for their release
on humanitarian grounds but Pyongyang may use them as a bargaining
chip
Read more:
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