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- Awesome Library in Korean (Requires Korean font.)
Materials
- Korean Search Engine (Gumsak.com)
Provides searches in Korean. Requires the Korean font. 6-02
News
- -02-28-03 North Korea Going Nuclear (CBS News)
"South Korea confirmed Friday that North Korea has restarted a small reactor that could produce plutonium for atomic weapons. " 2-03
- 07-06-03 North Korea Going Nuclear (Washington Times)
"The CIA has revised an earlier intelligence estimate and now believes North Korea has begun reprocessing spent nuclear-fuel rods into plutonium for weapons, U.S. officials said.
Reprocessing the 8,000 stored nuclear fuel rods would be a key indicator that Pyongyang has abandoned past commitments to freeze its nuclear-arms program." 7-03
- 07-17-03 China Calls on N. Korea and U.S. to Honor Agreement (Bloomberg)
"China's government called on the U.S. and North Korea to return to a 1994 agreement in order to defuse a dispute about North Korea's nuclear weapons development program." 7-03
- 08-26-03 Who Wants What (BBC News)
"Representatives from six countries are meeting in Beijing for talks aimed at breaking the 10-month impasse over North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes." 8-03
- 1-10-03 North Korea Withdraws from Nuclear Arms Treaty (CBC News)
"North Korea withdrew from the global nuclear weapons treaty Friday, a treaty it's already violating, but said its nuclear program is peaceful." 1-03
- 1-4-03 North Korea Suffers from Famine (CNN)
"The United States has given a total of about 1.9 million metric tons (2 million short tons) of food since 1995 -- ranging from corn, rice, wheat, and flour to vegetable oil and powdered milk. The European Union, Japan and South Korea also have chipped in to try to reverse a famine that has been blamed for more than 3 million deaths." 1-03
- 1-4-03 South Korea Proposes End to USA - North Korea Conflict (USA Today)
"The United States refuses to talk until the North scraps its nuclear programs. And North Korea insists Washington must take the first step by signing a nonaggression pact promising not to attack the isolated country."
"One South Korean compromise being considered calls for the United States to resume oil shipments to North Korea, in return for it abandoning its uranium nuclear development, media reported Saturday, citing an unnamed government source." 1-03
- 1-7-03 Timeline on USA - North Korean Tensions (BBC News)
Provides a timeline, starting with early October of 2002 regarding the tensions between the USA and North Korea. 1-03
- 1-8-03 USA Agrees to Dialogue With North Korea (ABC News - Yeon-hee)
"In a key policy shift, the United States said it was willing to talk to communist North Korea about its nuclear intentions, easing tension a notch following calls from the region for dialogue." 1-03
- 12-28-02 North Korea Expels U.N. Inspectors (Independent - Reeve)
"Washington faced a deepening dilemma last night after North Korea declared it would expel United Nations nuclear non-proliferation monitors." The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the official name of "North Korea."
- News on Nuclear Threat of North Korea (CNN)
Provides news stories related to North Korea's nuclear threat. 2-03
- North Korean News (Kimsoft.com)
Provides stories from a North Korean view. 7-02
Papers
- Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (Time - Karon)
"Two weeks ago, North Korea vindicated Bush in spades, when the country's second most-powerful official told U.S. diplomat James Kelly that Pyongyang has, indeed, been running a secret nuclear weapons program, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the U.S." 12-02
- Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org - Pulcifer)
"The Bush administration has spun North Korea's admission of enriching uranium into an unexpected and ghastly act. For anyone familiar with the United States' dealings with North Korea, it is surprising Pyongyang hasn't made such a move earlier." 12-02
- Essay - North Korea's Nuclear Capacity (YellowTimes.org)
"North Korea's recent admission of enriching uranium for the purpose of creating a nuclear weapon may be an attempt to foil the U.S. strategy of keeping North Korea a public threat in order to facilitate the creation of the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) system." 12-02
- Essay - North Korea's Strategy (BBC News - Foster-Carter)
"As tensions mount over North Korea's nuclear threats, Korea expert Aidan Foster-Carter asks why the hermit state has chosen to ratchet up the pressure now, and what it hopes to gain." 1-03
- North Korea (CIA)
Provides maps, as well as information on the geography, climate, government, people, economy, and other basic information. 9-00
- North Korea (CountryReports.org)
Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map and a flag. 6-02
- North Korea (LonelyPlanet.com)
Provides information on the history, culture, people, geography, and a map.
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