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To: TimF who wrote (156263)	12/16/2002 8:45:24 PM
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North Korea demands apology for missile incident By Christopher Torchia Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea demanded an apology Friday from the United States for what it described as “piracy” in the seizure of a ship carrying missiles to Yemen. A day earlier, North Korea declared that it would revive a nuclear power plant that the United States and its allies suspect was being used to develop nuclear weapons before it was frozen in 1994. The two conflicts threatened to disrupt cross-border railway construction and other prominent projects aimed at reconciling North Korea and South Korea, a U.S. ally. Also at stake were two modern nuclear reactors that a U.S.-led consortium agreed to build in North Korea in exchange for the suspension of the nuclear program that it now plans to revive. On Tuesday, Spanish warships seized a North Korean ship carrying Scud missiles in the Arabian Sea. The U.S. military took charge of the ship, but then allowed it to sail on after high-level diplomacy between the United States and Yemen. “This is an unpardonable piracy that wantonly encroached upon the sovereignty of the DPRK,” an unidentified spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in comments reported in English language by the North’s Korean Central News Agency. DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The official said the missile components were part of a “legal trade contract” and that the ship was “on a normal voyage along the publicly recognized sea route.” “The DPRK has already clarified that it is not only producing missiles to defend itself from the U.S. constant military threat but exporting them to earn foreign currency,” he said. Missile exports are a major source of cash for the impoverished country, which depends on international aid to feed its people. The United States says North Korea is the world’s No. 1 proliferator of missile technology, and is therefore a threat to global stability. The United States let the intercepted shipment proceed to Yemen after receiving assurances the Scuds would not be transferred elsewhere in the tense Persian Gulf region. Bush administration officials acknowledged that boarding the ship and taking charge of its cargo probably violated international law. U.S.-North Korea relations went from bad to worse on Thursday, when the communist country announced it will restart a frozen plutonium-based nuclear reactor and resume construction on other nuclear facilities. With a bitter winter ahead, North Korea said it had no choice but to reactivate the program to supply desperately needed power after a U.S.-led decision last month to suspend oil shipments. The suspension was designed to pressure North Korea to give up a more recent nuclear program based on uranium enrichment. The oil was a provision of the 1994 U.S.-North Korean deal that froze the earlier nuclear program. U.S. allies said they were deeply worried by the collapse of the agreement. “It is extremely regrettable,” said Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda. “North Korea is abandoning its obligations under the framework agreed between the United States and North Korea.” Inter-Korean projects that are vulnerable to the tension include two cross-border roads that are set to open this month to transport South Korean tourists and workers to the North. South Korea plans to start building an industrial park in North Korea later this month. A North Korean delegation left Seoul on Friday after talks on setting customs and other rules for South Korean workers and materials crossing the border. airforcetimes.com

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