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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: space (Hijacked) who wrote (15982)	4/28/2003 11:59:49 AM
From: Mike M	Respond to of 21614

That's kinda funny (outer)space, however, you took too much liberty with the CIA's payroll. Here is another dividend of the recent skirmish with Iraq: So much for making the world a more dangerous place. story.news.yahoo.com China Says N.Korea Offers to Scrap Nuclear Program BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) offered to scrap its nuclear program during talks with the United States in Beijing last week if Washington dropped its hostile attitude, Western diplomats briefed by a Chinese official said on Monday. Pyongyang also offered to suspend ballistic missile tests and stop missile exports, said the diplomats who asked not to be identified. North Korean negotiators told their U.S. counterparts nuclear inspectors would be allowed into their country if Washington dropped its hostile attitude, a European Union (news - web sites) diplomat quoted the Chinese Foreign Ministry (news - web sites)'s top North Korea expert as saying. It was unclear why China held the briefing for about 20 EU diplomats, a rare occurrence. U.S. administration sources said last week North Korean officials told Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly in Beijing it already had atomic bombs and could make more because it had reprocessed thousands of spent nuclear fuel rods. But the Chinese Foreign Ministry painted an entirely different picture of the April 23-25 talks, which Beijing hosted in the hope of ending a nuclear standoff between Washington and Pyongyang which began last October. The Western diplomats quoted the Chinese Foreign Ministry official as saying North Korea backed down from its previous insistence on bilateral talks with the United States and told Kelly it had no preference for any particular format for negotiations. But North Korea warned of extraordinary measures if the United States played its "usual tricks," the diplomats quoted the Chinese official as saying. U.S. negotiators made no comment on North Korea's proposals other than saying Washington would study them, the diplomats said. They said they were told North Korean negotiator Li Gun did not make any threats about "selling, testing or possessing nuclear weapons" during the formal sessions of the Beijing talks. But there was ample opportunity to do so privately, the diplomats said. The Washington Post has quoted a U.S. official as saying Li Gun took Kelly aside to tell him that North Korea already had nuclear weapons. U.S. officials have said the reported admission came as no surprise to Washington, which already believed Pyongyang possessed one or two atomic bombs.