North Korean Nonsense
Did we really think North Korea was serious about dismantling all things nuclear? Not bloody likely. Less than a day after a disarmament agreement was reached, North Korean's Foreign Ministry issued the following statement:
"The U.S. should not even dream of the issue of (North Korea's) dismantlement of its nuclear deterrent before providing (light-water reactors), a physical guarantee for confidence-building"The U.S. and Japan both laughed and reiterated that North Korea can't be trusted with nukes. China sort of shrugged and said they were sure things would work out in the end. At present the U.S. is giving North Korea time to think it over and North Korea is giving the U.S. time also. Oh yeah, and a threat of "serious and complicated" consequences if dismantlement is demanded.
posted by Sara Ch. at 10:03 AM
3 Comments:
How about we give them depleted uranium and supervise the dilution of their bomb-grade fuel into reactor-grade fuel. Then we allow them a complete fuel cycle and tell them that if their fuel supply lasts x long then it isn't being diverted and they can have access to worldwide uranium markets on the same fuel budget. If they can access the black market to get uranium, they're going to do that anyway and this would set them back a few years.
It also helps that power plant fuel, correctly produced, is absolutely and undoubtedly beyond North Korea's capacity to manufacture into bombs.
North Korea should be "trusted" with a peaceful way to get rid of their nuclear weapons that won't result in proliferation. Done correctly, that's nuclear energy.
What do you expect from a country led by a mentally-unstable nut job?
I expect them to attempt to violate every protocol at every possible turn. Why shouldn't they turn their bombs into reactor fuel?
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