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ACCESSION NUMBER:328399
FILE ID:POL401
DATE:02/24/94
TITLE:CONGRESSIONAL REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 (02/24/94)
1EXT:*94022401.POL
CONGRESSIONAL REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24
(North Korea)  (310)
NUNN, LUGAR URGE STRONGER POLICY ON NORTH KOREA
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn and Senator Richard Lugar,
a leading Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, have suggested
that the Clinton administration consider reinforcing South Korea with
short-range nuclear weapons if North Korea ignores international sanctions
and develops nuclear arms.
In a 15-page report issued February 23, Nunn and Lugar also recommended that
the United States push the U.N. Security Council to impose a "graduated
series" of economic sanctions against North Korea if the Kim Il-song
government fails to allow full inspection of its nuclear facilities by the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
If North Korea fails to respond to the graduated economic sanctions, the
United States should next reinforce South Korea with such military defenses
as the Patriot anti-missile system, the report says.
Further, the report notes, if it is confirmed that North Korea has nuclear
weapons, "the reintroduction of short-range nuclear weapons on South Korean
territory, as a visible deterrent to a North Korean first-use of nuclear
weapons, would clearly have to be considered."
The two senators visited Seoul January 8-11 to discuss North Korea's nuclear
program and its implications for the Korean peninsula, the Asia-Pacific
region, and global non-proliferation.
The report chides the Clinton administration for not articulating "clear
goals and policies on Korea with the kind of continuous, high level,
interagency focus demanded by this challenge."
The United States, South Korea and Japan must act "in close concert with one
another" in addressing the problem posed by North Korea's nuclear program,
the report says.  "We must continue to make it clear to North Korea that an
attack on South Korea or Japan would be tantamount to an attack on the
United States," the report says.
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