Posted on June 28th, 2008 by Marian Houk
An unusually-sensitive U.S. State Department official has noticed North Korean sadness.
Yes.
The North Koreans were sad at having to blow up a cooling tower to show that it was sincere about “disabling” its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
That’s what you get for testing nuclear weapons after withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
The Associated Press reported today [...]
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Filed under: Ambassadors and other diplomats, Disarmament, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, USA
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Marian Houk
ABC reported after the much-anticipated briefing by the U.S. Administration to members of Congress on Israel’s attack on a Syrian target last September that “Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and ranking member Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., are furious with the Bush administration for failing to brief Congress until eight months after Israeli jets bombed a suspected [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, Syria
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Marian Houk
But, as Assistant U.S. Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher R. Hill said in Tokyo yesterday, disablement means the reactor cannot be up an running again within a year, if things go bad. And, it’s an intermediary step, Hill said — the ultimate goal is complete dismantlement.
In a conversation with journalists at [...]
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Filed under: North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on November 4th, 2007 by Marian Houk
… and the disabling of North Korea’s nuclear facilities in Yongbyon is due to start Monday, according to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, who is the American point man on the matter.
The Agence France Press reported Saturday that a nine-member team of U.S. experts will at least observe at least the start of [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
One of the oddest aspects of the extremely odd story that has been breaking for over a week about an Israeli airstrike on Syria is the role played by Israeli censorship.
Here is one interesting note from Dion Nissenbaum’s Checkpoint Jerusalem blog :
“The Israeli action followed months of rumors in the Israeli press, generated largely by [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, North Korea, Syria
Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Gideon Lichfield, Jerusalem correspondent of The Economist, has posted this today on his blog [www.fugitivepeace.com]:
“The mystery about Israel’s air strike against Syria on September 6th, which I wrote about in the current issue, continues to deepen. The story taking hold is that Israel hit material or equipment for nuclear weapons supplied by North Korea. But [...]
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Filed under: Iran, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, North Korea, Syria
Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Christopher Hill, who is the chief American negotiator on North Korea, told journalists in Australia over the weekend that teams from the three major nuclear-weapons states (the U.S., Russia, and China) are expected to be in Pyongyang on the evening of 11 September.
Hill [...]
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Filed under: China, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Marian Houk
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told journalists Monday evening in Geneva that the just-ended two-day round of talks with North Korea in Geneva was “the fourth of five working groups that we’ve held in connection with getting ready for the next Six-Party plenary. The fifth working group will take place next week in [...]
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Filed under: China, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons, Russia
Posted on September 2nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press is reporting from Geneva that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said, after two days of talks, that “North Korea agreed Sunday to account for and disable its atomic programs by the end of the year, offering its first timeline for a process long sought by nuclear negotiators.
Kim Gye Gwan, head [...]
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Filed under: Disarmament, North Korea, Nuclear technology and weapons
Posted on September 2nd, 2007 by Marian Houk
According to a transcript sent out by email from the U.S. Mission in Geneva, the U.S. found that its face-to-face talks with a North Korean delegation went well. Here are selected excerpts:
U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER HILL –
I think we reached, I think, a substantial understanding between the two of us on what needs to [...]
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