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Yongbyon Nuclear Facility
The thaw comes two months after the former dictator of NKorea Kim Jong-il died and the power was transferred to his son, Kim Jong-eun, a young men in his late 20s, who is considered by some analysts as inexperienced and incapable to unlock the profound economic crisis the regime in going through.
Former dictator manifested a wish to resume the talks with the United States and demanded that the six-party format talks be resumed, in hopes that he may acquire food for the people in exchange for nuclear weapons agreement.
The resumption on Wednesday of talks and the concessions made show that NKorea has met the most important requirements of the United States for resuming the disarmament-for-aid talks, from which the Communist regime withdrew in 2009.
Hillary Clinton, the U.S. State Secretary, said that the announcement made by the NKorean regime is a “little step” toward the right direction, and is indicative that the world is changing around us.
She told a Senate hearing that NKorea has agreed to stop its nuclear activity at Yongbyon, including uranium enrichment activities, and would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify and monitor the activity in order to confirm the disablement of the nuclear reactors.
In exchange, Clinton said, the United States will agree with NKorea for a package of 240,000 metric tons of food, which she called “nutritional assistance.” A very serious monitoring of the food delivery will be needed, the State Secretary added.
Simultaneously, the NKorean regime issued a similar statement, in which, using a different wording, announced the same thing. NKorea appealed a year ago for aid in order to alleviate the chronic food shortage.
Last year, Kim Jong-il met in Siberia with the president Dmitri Medvedev and agreed to allow Russia build a gas pipeline toward SKorea in exchange for grain. Russia agreed and delivered the requested amount.
An unidentified spokesperson for NKorean foreign ministry said that the country has agreed to the program in order to maintain a positive atmosphere for U.S.-NKorea talks.
The accord was brokered in a meeting last week in Beijing, and is expected to bring to the negotiations the other nations involved: Russia, China, Japan and SKorea, which are part of the discussion about the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Clinton said that the new leadership of the Communist regime may lead its people on the path of freedom but that the American government would now judge the regime by its actions. America is not hostile to NKorea and there may be people-to-people exchanges in the future in areas of culture, education and sports.
Even though the signs of the new leadership are good, and the young son seems to getting the grip on the new power easily, with all the leaders of the party and the military pledging their allegiance to him soon after his death, there are reason for skepticism related to whether NKorea will ever give up its nuclear program completely.
The nuclear program was listed among the things that compose the legacy of the regime of Kim Jong-il. A SKorean political analyst said that at the present time the nuclear program is the most important achievement of the country, and it would be used as leverage to win concessions.
The American statement about the moratorium on uranium enrichment did not specify anything about the plutonium-based program. NKorea has conducted two nuclear experiments so far, and developed a battery of ballistic missiles.
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