North Korea halts nuclear reactor disablement

[Praxius]

In this image from television, North Korea's 60-foot-tall cooling tower at it's main reactor complex in Yongbyon, North Korea is destroyed, Friday, June 27, 2008.

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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear reactor and will consider restoring the plutonium-producing facility in anger over Washington's failure to remove it from the U.S. list of terror sponsors.

The North's statement marks the emergence of the biggest hurdle yet to the communist nation's denuclearization process and is expected to escalate tension in the nuclear talks involving China, Japan, the two Koreas, the U.S. and Russia.

Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said it suspended the disablement work at the reactor and other facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex as of Aug. 14 because the U.S. did not keep its promise to delist Pyongyang as a terror sponsor under last year's deal.

Countries concerned were notified of the suspension, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

The ministry said it was forced to take the step "as countermeasures in a situation where the United States violated the agreement."

It also said the country will "consider restoring the Yongbyon facilities to their original states" but did not say when it would do so.

Removal from the terror list is one of the key concessions offered to the North in exchange for shutting down and disabling the reactor under a landmark six-nation deal reached last year.

The U.S. announced in June that it would delist the North as a terror sponsor after Pyongyang turned in a long-delayed list of its nuclear programs.

The two sides have been negotiating how to verify the nuclear declaration, with Washington saying it would remove the North from the terror list only after Pyongyang agrees to a verification plan.

The North's statement came shortly after Chinese President Hu Jintao left South Korea after summit talks with President Lee Myung-bak that included discussions on the North's nuclear issue.

South Korea's Foreign Ministry was not immediately available for comment.

The presidential Blue House referred the queries to the Foreign Ministry.

So much for that.

Of course, if you don't keep your promises in a deal, why should anybody else? The deals' broken now. Back to square one.

 

[darkbeaver]

Item #1. That's a very interesting picture Praxius. I wonder when they determined they would need a new cooling tower?
Item #3 (unrelated to item #1)->->-> I've have wondered for some time now.What's with the goddamn colours?
Item #38 Could you please forward your reply to the maintennance dept; no latter than twosday morning right after lunch.

 

[DurkaDurka]

What's with the goddamn colours?

The colours represent the country you love most, Beaver. :lol:

 

[darkbeaver]

The colours represent the country you love most, Beaver. :lol:

Ahso! I'm dichromatic Durka. What country do those colours repersent?:smile:

 

[DurkaDurka]

Ahso! I'm dichromatic Durka. What country do those colours repersent?:smile:

White fonts don't work so great with a white background... I guess you could be french for the day though.

 

[darkbeaver]

French eh, I had no idea, that explains it.:smile:

 

[Praxius]

Item #1. That's a very interesting picture Praxius. I wonder when they determined they would need a new cooling tower?

lol, they'll probably sue for the money it'll cost to build it again.

Item #3 (unrelated to item #1)->->-> I've have wondered for some time now.What's with the goddamn colours?
Item #38 Could you please forward your reply to the maintennance dept; no latter than twosday morning right after lunch.

The colours are used for what I figured would help seperate points in the article that I personally feel would be important for the debate, to make it easier to skim back through to certain points in the report, and if I had it all in one colour or in bold, some parts of the report would blend together and thus, to me anyways, would render the whole process useless for quick reference.

I originally just bolded and left everything black, but that still added time to skim back through, so then I began to add Red into the reports, but once again, some still ran together, so I began to add blue. The colours in paticular don't really mean I think one is negative or positive in the report..... just to simply seperate the report better.

Hope this better explains my approach.

Added:

Oh, and quotes, you may have noticed, are in Black Italics.

 

[darkbeaver]

lol, they'll probably sue for the money it'll cost to build it again.



The colours are used for what I figured would help seperate points in the article that I personally feel would be important for the debate, to make it easier to skim back through to certain points in the report, and if I had it all in one colour or in bold, some parts of the report would blend together and thus, to me anyways, would render the whole process useless for quick reference.

I originally just bolded and left everything black, but that still added time to skim back through, so then I began to add Red into the reports, but once again, some still ran together, so I began to add blue. The colours in paticular don't really mean I think one is negative or positive in the report..... just to simply seperate the report better.

Hope this better explains my approach.

Added:

Oh, and quotes, you may have noticed, are in Black Italics.

Thankyou for your timely but somehow late reply. Maybe I'v let my problem stew far to long in my cauldron. It's simply not resonable of me to complain about your stylizations, they are afterall a damn good attempt to communicate and express your inner latex tones.:lol:

Now that you mentioned it, I bet they do get reconstruction grants from the imperialist dummies.:lol:

 

[Praxius]

Thankyou for your timely but somehow late reply.

Well I only have so many fingers attached to my hand.... I could try adding my toes into the equation to speed things up for you, but some days my crotch doesn't smell so spring time fresh.

Maybe I'v let my problem stew far to long in my cauldron. It's simply not resonable of me to complain about your stylizations, they are afterall a damn good attempt to communicate and express your inner latex tones.:lol:

Just remember, bubble side out and roll on, not pull.

Now that you mentioned it, I bet they do get reconstruction grants from the imperialist dummies.:lol:

There's money in ratings.... and for the news companies to get ratings, they need stories... so they make up their own little soap opera for us all to watch and rake in the money.