US envoy: N.Korea nuclear plans another provocation

SEOUL | Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:37pm EST

SEOUL Nov 22 (Reuters) - The top U.S. envoy to North Korea said on Monday revelations that Pyongyang had made rapid advances in enriching uranium was the latest in a series of provocations over the past 20 years.

"It is another in a series of provocative moves by the DPRK ... it is a very difficult problem we have been struggling to deal with for 20 years," said Stephen Bosworth after meeting South Korean officials in Seoul, on the first leg of a tour of the region's main powers.

A U.S. nuclear scientist revealed at the weekend North Korean officials had shown him a uranium enrichment plant, with more than a thousand centrifuges, giving the North a second route to produce nuclear bombs. (Reporting by Jeremy Laurence; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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SteveAbbott wrote:
Read the actual history, not what the spin merchants have made of recent “US envoys” said. The US abrogated the 1994 framework agreement having met absolutely none of their committments. The DPRK had met all of their committments before the US withdraw the promised oil in a cold winter. The oil was not aid. It was the US committment to replace the nuclear plants that N. Korea had agreed to shut down until they could be replaced. The US promoted the fiction that it had been a gift as justification for withdrawing it based upon a totally improbable and impractical claim by a “US envoy”.

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