Arms Control Wonk

No Responses to “North Korean Nuclear Weapons.”

1. 

   J. | February 10, 2005

   Bluff. Guy with his hand in his jacket pocket saying “don’t move, I have a gun.” You’re the AC expert, I thought this behavior was pretty typical of N. Korea’s bad guy-good guy schizoid behavior to keep the US negotiators off-balance. Bluff and see what US will give us to not do anything crazy.
2. 

   dan | February 10, 2005

   from the statement, as published (translated?) by the BBC (the NYT quotes the same language):

   “We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the NPT and have manufactured nukes for self-defence to cope with the Bush administration’s evermore undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK.”

   “Nukes?” What are they, Greenpeace?
3. 

   tim | February 10, 2005

   http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7452415

   I don’t know if this has been confirmed or not but I find it interesting that The DPRK’s announcement comes after this alleged purchase from Pakistan.
4. 

   Jeffrey Lewis | February 10, 2005

   I don’t take the Seoul Shinmun claim seriously.

   North Korea has enough plutonium to makes its own bombs.