The North Korean Nuclear Threat: Weapons of Mass Destruction or W
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Topic: The North Korean Nuclear Threat: Weapons of Mass Destruction or Weapons of Mass Disruption?
Guest: Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, former US Ambassador to South Korea
Summary: North Korea has expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from North Korea; withdrawn from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; regained access to spent plutonium fuel rods used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons; and conducted a missile test and nuclear test detonation in defiance of US demands not to do so. This, in spite of the Bush Administration’s hard-line approach with the North Korean regime that demands complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement (CVID) of its nuclear weapons program and the world community’s efforts, through the Six Party Talks, to seek a negotiated settlement. Is US policy in North Korea on-track? US policy also relies heavily on China to function as an intermediary in convincing the North Koreans to abandon its nuclear weapons program. But does the historical relationship between the two communist nations support such an approach? What is the prognosis for resolution of North Korea’s nuclear program, which the Bush Administration has identified as one of the legs of the tripod comprising the axis of evil? Is it time for a shift in US policy toward North Korea?Topic: The North Korean Nuclear Threat: Weapons of Mass Destruction or Weapons of Mass Disruption?
Guest: Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, form...all »Topic: The North Korean Nuclear Threat: Weapons of Mass Destruction or Weapons of Mass Disruption?
Guest: Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, former US Ambassador to South Korea
Summary: North Korea has expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from North Korea; withdrawn from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; regained access to spent plutonium fuel rods used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons; and conducted a missile test and nuclear test detonation in defiance of US demands not to do so. This, in spite of the Bush Administration’s hard-line approach with the North Korean regime that demands complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement (CVID) of its nuclear weapons program and the world community’s efforts, through the Six Party Talks, to seek a negotiated settlement. Is US policy in North Korea on-track? US policy also relies heavily on China to function as an intermediary in convincing the North Koreans to abandon its nuclear weapons program. But does the historical relationship between the two communist nations support such an approach? What is the prognosis for resolution of North Korea’s nuclear program, which the Bush Administration has identified as one of the legs of the tripod comprising the axis of evil? Is it time for a shift in US policy toward North Korea?«
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