EPTNorth Korea agrees to curb nuclear work - Page 3
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Deshkar
Singapore1244 Posts
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
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MHT
Sweden1026 Posts
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xavierofsparta
United States84 Posts
On March 01 2012 04:24 JiYan wrote: who says theyll actually follow up and do it though. their devolopment has been under the radar this entire time. who says they dont just keep their nuclear research a secret and take our food and supplies? This is a very good point. IAEA inspectors can only go to declared nuclear facilities to do their inspections. Declared facilities, as the name implies, are the facilities that the government (NK here) state as their nuclear facilities. So undeclared facilities could be present and how NK's uranium enrichment program came about and found out, keeping these types of facilities under wraps from the outside on-lookers is highly probable. I am not too sure when NK did come out and said publicly they have uranium enrichment (for those unaware, this was their second way of making fissile material and only came to light that they had the capability to go this route was sometime around 2006-7) an in-depth list of what they have there, number of centrifuges and the like, to be able to know whether or not all are present at the declare facility. Without such a list, having an undeclared site doing the same stuff somewhere else could go on with little the IAEA can do. | ||
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[UoN]Sentinel
United States11320 Posts
On March 01 2012 04:08 xavierofsparta wrote: Optimism is fine to have with this, just don't go betting the farm for this to work. Granted Kim jong-Un is new, but he was picked by his father to keep legacy of Kim il-Sung (and by proxy Kim jong-Il) alive. Un is not the elder of Il's sons. In fact, he is the youngest. The eldest son and daughter of Kim jong-Il have/are publicly in opposition to the leadership in NK. So to think Un is going to be a reformer, it is unlikely (but not out of the realm of possibility). Well that was mostly because his eldest son tried to go to Tokyo Disneyland, which was a big embarassment for North Korea. He wasn't speaking out against his father before that. | ||
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