North Korea: Nuclear Deadline Missed
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/world/asia/01briefs-NUCLEARDEADL_BRF.html
January 1, 2008
World Briefing | Asia
North Korea: Nuclear Deadline Missed
By REUTERS [DPRK] [wmd] [could be Kim Jong Il’s signature cockup: after years of negotiation bilaterally and multilaterall with U.S. and big Six respectively, sabatoge the entire things] [he’s done it many times before] [trouble is for sec def Rice and the traditional internationalists in the administration] [the neoconservatives—Vulcans—will be nipping at her heels if so] [followup] [just days ago state announced that DPRK needed to keep to the schedule] [****] [gala]
North Korea remained silent as the last hours of 2007 passed and it missed a year-end deadline to give a full accounting of its nuclear weapons. It gave no explanation for breaking its promise to the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, and it faced no outcry. “We’ve seen these kinds of delays or other things occur in the process as we move along, and in some ways I think you have expect those things,” [***] said Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman. In Crawford, Tex., where President Bush was vacationing, a White House spokesman, Scott M. Stanzel, said: “I think we had all hoped that North Korea would meet the Dec. 31 deadline. We hope they will do that as soon as possible.” The Japanese Foreign Ministry called the missed deadline “unfortunate.” [****]The South Korean Foreign Ministry said it was “regrettable.” Russia and China were silent on the issue.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/world/asia/01briefs-NUCLEARDEADL_BRF.html
January 1, 2008
World Briefing | Asia
North Korea: Nuclear Deadline Missed
By REUTERS [DPRK] [wmd] [could be Kim Jong Il’s signature cockup: after years of negotiation bilaterally and multilaterall with U.S. and big Six respectively, sabatoge the entire things] [he’s done it many times before] [trouble is for sec def Rice and the traditional internationalists in the administration] [the neoconservatives—Vulcans—will be nipping at her heels if so] [followup] [just days ago state announced that DPRK needed to keep to the schedule] [****] [gala]
North Korea remained silent as the last hours of 2007 passed and it missed a year-end deadline to give a full accounting of its nuclear weapons. It gave no explanation for breaking its promise to the United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, and it faced no outcry. “We’ve seen these kinds of delays or other things occur in the process as we move along, and in some ways I think you have expect those things,” [***] said Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman. In Crawford, Tex., where President Bush was vacationing, a White House spokesman, Scott M. Stanzel, said: “I think we had all hoped that North Korea would meet the Dec. 31 deadline. We hope they will do that as soon as possible.” The Japanese Foreign Ministry called the missed deadline “unfortunate.” [****]The South Korean Foreign Ministry said it was “regrettable.” Russia and China were silent on the issue.
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company