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Isnt diplomacy for the weak minded? I thought the all powerful US would want to get rid of this threat to its security from a mighty nation of the axis of evil.
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Haven't you heard CM? The North Koreans can fight back!
What if every country in the world gets nukes? What will the US do then? It will be left toothless.
Another American contribution to the world: introduction of nuclear weapons.
Russia and China have also said to have helped North Korea.
Russia denies allegations that it helped North Korea develop nuclear weapons
Fri Oct 18,11:17 AM ET
MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday angrily denied allegations that Moscow was providing assistance to a nuclear weapons program in North Korea (news - web sites), which stunned the world by apparently acknowledging its determination to become a nuclear power.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with reality,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said in response to the allegations that Russia and China were helping advance Pyongyang’s drive to obtain nuclear weapons.
The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Pakistan was a major supplier of equipment North Korea needed to restart its nuclear program, while China and Russia were less prominent contributors.
Yakovenko insisted that Russia had fully met its obligations under international agreements barring nuclear proliferation. “We even suspended our cooperation with North Korea in the area of peaceful use of nuclear energy after Pyongyang declared its pullout from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty,” Yakovenko said in a statement released to the media.
“We haven’t had any contacts with North Korea in this area ever since,” he added.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly led a delegation to Pyongyang earlier this month that confronted North Korean officials with information that Pyongyang was developing nuclear weapons in violation of its 1994 pledge to freeze its nuclear weapons program. At first, the North Koreans denied the allegation but then acknowledged that Kelly’s contention was correct, according to Washington.
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov later said that the United States had not provided Russia with a full rundown of what the U.S. had learned about Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program and said the issue would be discussed during an upcoming visit by U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton.
Ivanov said that Moscow would also be seeking clarification from Pyongyang.
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Russia and China have also said to have helped North Korea.
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Yes, and not to forget official nuclear super powers and permanent members of the UN Security council. No wonder the US is not threatening war against North Korea, even though it claims that they already have a "couple of nuclear bombs".