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Thursday, 12 December, 2002, 11:13 GMT
 BBC News
Text of N Korea's nuclear warning
North Korea frequently engages in brinkmanship
North Korea has threatened to unfreeze work at a nuclear power plant in
response to a US-led halt on fuel aid shipments.
The threat was issued in the following statement from North Korea's foreign
ministry, carried by North Korean news agency KCNA.
On 12 December, a DPRK (North Korean) Foreign Ministry spokesman issued a
press statement declaring that to cope with the present situation, the DPRK
Government has unavoidably decided to lift the nuclear freeze, which was
taken under the premise of 500,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil per year being
supplied in accordance with the DPRK-US Framework Agreement, and immediately
resume the operation and construction of nuclear facilities necessary for
electric power generation.
The spokesman pointed out:
On 14 November, the United States announced it would suspend the supply of
heavy fuel oil, which it had been providing to our country in accordance
with the DPRK-US Framework Agreement, and actually suspended the delivery of
heavy fuel oil starting in December.
Thus the United States has completely abandoned its obligation of supplying
heavy fuel oil as stipulated in the Framework Agreement, not only in words
but also in deed.
The United States is misleading public opinion, as if its abandoning the
obligation to supply heavy fuel oil was because we admitted having a nuclear
development programme and thus violated the agreement first, but that is a
futile attempt.
The United States can never evade the responsibility for thoroughly
trampling on both the spirit and letter of the Framework Agreement by
designating us an axis of evil and a target for pre-emptive nuclear attacks.
Our "admitting to nuclear development," which only the United States has
raised, was a voluntary admission by the US president's special envoy while
visiting the DPRK in early October.
We do not particularly feel the need to comment about this.
Peacefully resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is a
consistent stance of our republic's government.
Proceeding from this, we have manifested a high degree of self-control and
patience even in the worst situation, like now, where, in reality the
DPRK-US Agreed Framework has been in a state of rupture because of the
United States, and nuclear threats against us have become a reality.
Nevertheless, the other side is amplifying its pressure offensives by saying
we must give up our nuclear development program in verifiable manners while,
first, pressing ahead with the measure to suspend the supply of heavy fuel
oil.
This is construed as something the United States clearly revealed as its
attempt to get rid of our system by disarming us with force.
To us, the supply of heavy fuel oil is neither so-called aid nor
co-operation, and was a US obligation to compensate for the loss of
electricity resulting from the freeze of the nuclear power plants we were
operating and constructing.
The United States' actual giving up of this obligation has left an immediate
vacuum in our electricity production.
The issue of once again freezing our nuclear facilities is wholly dependent
on the United States.
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Nord Corea: riattiveremo le centrali nucleari
La notizia, diffusa dall'agenzia di stampa sudcoreana Yonhap, rischia di
creare scompiglio sulla scena internazionale. Per Bush la Corea del Nord
resta uno dei Paesi de "l'asse del male"
TOKYO - La Corea del Nord riattiverà "immediatamente" le centrali nucleari
che si erano fermate dopo il 1994. A riferire la notizia è stata l'agenzia
sudcoreana Yonhap, che riporta un comunicato diffuso dal ministero degli
Esteri nordcoreano. Sulla nota si legge che saranno ripresi i lavori di
costruzione di centrali ad acqua pesante, che usano il plutonio per la
produzione di energia elettrica. Ma le centrali potrebbero
contemporaneamente servire per la produzione di bombe atomiche.
La rivelazione è destinata sconvolgere gli scenari internazionali. Da tempo
gli Stati Uniti temono che Pyongyang adotti un programma nucleare, che gli
Usa ritengono pericoloso per uno degli ultimi Paesi sotto un regime
comunista e definito dallo stesso Bush uno dei Paesi del "l'asse del male".
Pyongyang non ha nascosto, d'altra parte, i suoi intenti.
Nel 1994 Stati Uniti e Corea del Nord avevano concluso un accordo bilaterale
in base al quale Pyongyang rinunciava alle centrali ad acqua pesante e
otteneva in cambio la costruzione di due centrali ad acqua leggera e
forniture di carburante. Dopo la scoperta di un piano segreto nucleare messo
a punto dalla Corea, gli Usa hanno deciso di bloccare quelle forniture.
L'annuncio di oggi da parte di Pyongtyang sarebbe una ritorsione al blocco
deciso dagli Usa.
Intanto cresce la preoccupazione nell'est asiatico: il governo sudcoreano
terrà oggi una riunione di emergenza. "Non abbiamo ancora ricevuto notifiche
del genere dalla Corea del Nord - ha detto un alto funzionario del ministero
dell'unificazione. se è vero, è una cosa preoccupante. Resta da vedere se il
Nord vuole davvero passare ai fatti o se si tratta di un mezzo di pressione
sugli Usa per costringerli ad una trattativa diretta".
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