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1993 North Korea Special Weapons News



  • LORD: U.S. COMMITMENT TO KOREA UNDIMINISHED BY NORTH THREAT 06 December 1993 -- America's commitment to Korea's security remains undiminished, according to Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord. In remarks to the Korea Society in New York City December 9, Lord said: "The threat from North Korea remains the most perilous and noxious legacy of the Cold War. North Korea's refusal to accept its obligations under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty is a challenge to peace and security on the Peninsula as well as to the global non-proliferation regime."
  • CLINTON TO DISCUSS PYONGYANG NUCLEAR REPLY WITH ADVISERS By Alexander M. Sullivan and Edmund F. Scherr USIA 06 December 1993 -- The United States is "not entirely satisfied" with North Korea's response on nuclear inspection, President Clinton asserted December 6.
  • Staying Out Of Potential Nuclear Crossfires Policy Analysis No. #160; November 24, 1993 by Ted Galen Carpenter, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Cato Institute -- One of the most important challenges facing U.S. leaders in the post-Cold War era is keeping the United States out of regional disputes in which one or more of the parties might be armed with nuclear weapons. Washington's obsession with preventing nuclea r proliferation, combined with the doctrine of extended deterrence, instead puts the United States on the front lines of such conflicts.
  • CLINTON URGES NORTH KOREA NOT TO BLOCK NUCLEAR INSPECTIONS By Alexander Sullivan and Russell Dybvik USIA 11/23/93 -- President Clinton warned North Korea November 23 it risks increased international pressure if it persists in blocking inspection of its nuclear facilities.
  • Clinton Urges North Korea Not to Block Nuclear Inspections USIA 11/23/93 -- President Clinton warned North Korea it risks increased international pressure if it persists in blocking inspection of its nuclear facilities, but also offered to re-examine, with South Korea, security arrangements on the Korean peninsula if Pyongyang renounces nuclear weapons.
  • BOND - CRISIS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA (Senate - November 22, 1993) North Korea's effort to design and build nuclear weapons is a threat to South Korea and to international stability. The Clinton administration has failed to respond adequately to this threat and that, by its actions, is setting the stage for a much more dangerous confrontation down the road.
  • COHEN - CRISIS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA (Senate - November 17, 1993) We are giving ground just to keep North Korea from backsliding. Yet our experience to date has been that preemptive concessions produce more backsliding, not progress.
  • HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 292, THE INTRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION IN KOREA RESOLUTION -- HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN (Extension of Remarks - 15 November 1993) North Korea's relentless effort to develop a nuclear bomb has reached crisis proportions. There is a real possibility that North Korea has produced enough nuclear material to build at least one bomb, and that possession by North Korea of such a bomb would threaten United States allies in all of Asia as well as United States forces in the region.
  • ASPIN TO DISCUSS NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR PROGRAM IN JAPAN, SKOREA By Jerry Mckinney VOA Correspondent - 01 November 1993
  • CLINTON SAYS IT IS IMPORTANT TO STAY STRONG ON NKOREA NUCLEAR ISSUE (Transcript: President's brief remarks at DMZ lookout post) 07/12/93 -- President Clinton said at the lookout post, looking out over the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea July 11 that "anyone who sees this would understand "how important it iis for us to stay strong on the issue of North Korea staying in the NPT."
  • North Korea and the Risks of Coercive Nonproliferation by Doug Bandow CATO Foreign Policy Briefing No. 24 (May 4, 1993) "Instead of resorting to high-risk military options, Washington should work with Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul to draw North Korea into the web of international diplomatic and economic relations and persuade Pyongyang to honor its commitments to the NPT. The current crisis also underscores the urgent need to withdraw all U.S. military personnel from South Korea. There are no U.S. security interests at stake in Korea that are important enough to risk making American soldiers nuclear hostages."
  • RISCASSI: THE NORTH KOREAN THREAT HAS RISEN DRAMATICALLY By Jane A. Morse USIA 04/21/93 Staff Writer Washington -- If "ten" means war and "one" means peace, then the threat posed to South Korea by the North has risen to seven and a half in the last 60 days, according to General Robert W. Riscassi, commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Republic of Korea (ROK).
  • NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR DANGER (Following is an editorial, broadcast by the Voice of America April 20, reflecting the views of the U.S. government.) The president of the U.N. Security Council recently issued a statement of concern over North Korea's non-compliance with the International Atomic Energy Agency's nuclear safeguards agreement and North Korea's decision to withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
  • PROLIFERATION MENACE: IRAN AND NORTH KOREA [editorial broadcast by the Voice of America] - 15 April 1993
  • SENATE RESOLUTION 92--RELATING TO NORTH KOREA'S PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL FROM THE TREATY ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS (Senate - April 02, 1993) North Korea's decision to opt out of the treaty suggests that President Kim Il-song and heir apparent Kim Chong-Il have adopted a go-for-broke strategy to develop a nuclear weapons capability.
  • UNITED STATES MUST KEEP UP PRESSURE ON NORTH KOREA -- (BY DAVID KAY) (Extension of Remarks - March 25, 1993) The United States must take decisive action to halt North Korea's program and to ensure that Iran's program doesn't get any farther off the ground.
  • SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 19--RELATIVE TO CONDEMNING NORTH KOREA'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE TREATY ON THE NONPROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS (Senate - March 23, 1993) North Korea's withdrawal from the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons is extremely dangerous, given North Korea's ruthless regime and its ties with other radical states, primarily in the Middle East.
  • COMMERCE DEPARTMENT APPROVED EXPORTS OF HIGH TECH GOODS TO NORTH KOREA -- HON. FORTNEY PETE STARK (Extension of Remarks - March 16, 1993) In Iraq, the IAEA failed to rise to this challenge. The Agency failed to detect Saddam Hussein's elaborate clandestine nuclear weapons program. In North Korea the Agency--to its credit--was a little more aggressive in seeking access to these two undeclared sites.



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