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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
... from the terrorism blacklist, her spokesman said."We'll see if we get to the point where we have a verification protocol and regime that all the six parties can agree upon," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters."No decision has been taken yet" on dropping North Korea from the blacklist, he added.One way to break the logjam would be for the U.S. to agree to less...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | yesterday
... walked away from the talks. White House press secretary Dana Perino said a nuclear disarmament verification protocol remained essential to taking North Korea off the terrorism list. She added, however: “If we can get a verification protocol that we are satisfied with, then we would be able to fulfill our side of the bargain.” North Korea stopped disabling its nuclear...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... be provisionally removed from the terrorism list as soon as it deposits with China an agreement on verification, according to U.S. officials.China, the chair of the six-nation nation negotiations, would then announce that the North Koreans were on board, allowing Pyongyang to claim that Washington moved first, they said.Despite signs the delisting is close, details of what North Korea is...
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
... to Islamic rogue regime. We will remove North Korea from the terror list. The details of the “verification protocol” are still unclear. Now that's pathetic. The only thing at work in diminishing our standing in the world is our own self debasement. Surrender after surrender, apologizing for what. Our greatness? Groveling to who? Two bit tin pot brutal savage dictators. Truman is weeping....
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... away from the talks.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said a nuclear disarmament verification protocol remained essential to taking North Korea off the terrorism list.
She added, however: "If we can get a verification protocol that we are satisfied with, then we would be able to fulfill our side of the bargain."
The plans of the reclusive communist...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... delicate task of twisting the arms of reluctant officials in South Korea and in Japanwho see the verification deal as failing to resolve the long-range issue of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. As North Korea makes menacing moves to rev-up tensions, diplomatic analysts agree that the easiest way out of the quandary is to limit the US demand for a verification protocol strictly...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Korea's agreement on steps to be taken to verify its nuclear declaration. The details of the "verification protocol" are still unclear, and will be scrutinised by those who suspect Mr. Bush of caving into the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il. Conservatives, including some of the president's former neo-con supporters, object on principle to the deal of cutting a deal with a regime...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Korea’s agreement on steps to be taken to verify its nuclear declaration. The details of the “verification protocol” are still unclear, and will be scrutinised by those who suspect Mr Bush of caving into the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il. Conservatives, including some of the president’s former neo-con supporters, object on principle to the deal of cutting a deal with a regime which...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... walked away from the talks. White House press secretary Dana Perino said a nuclear-disarmament verification protocol remained essential to taking North Korea off the terrorism list. The plans of the reclusive communist nation were revealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The North had already banned IAEA inspectors from the reprocessing plant last month after demanding...
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Department of State (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... it forward in a responsible way. And that means the – all the Six Parties need to agree upon a verification regime, and that’s where we are at the moment. We don’t yet have agreement on a verification regime that will allow this process to move forward. Should we get that, and the five parties are satisfied with that verification regime, then, as we have previously stated,...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
"Reports on North Korea having made a very important suggestion or issued an ultimatum seem to be grounded on matters in the past. It is different from what was discussed at Hill's recent visit, which was a verification protocol," Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told a parliamentary committee.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... matters in the past. It is different from what was discussed at Hill's recent visit, which was a verification protocol," Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan told a parliamentary committee.A pro-Pyongynag paper published in Japan said on Monday that North Korea "seems to have delivered its opinion on peacefully resolving the nuclear issues ... and issued an ultimatum in relation to this."The...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
... China, as the SPT Chair, could again play “a special role” in securing North Korea’s assent to a verification protocol. The crisis was triggered by Pyongyang’s decision to ask the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to de-seal the reprocessing plant at the Yongbyon nuclear complex. The plant was earlier “disabled” under IAEA supervision and in accordance with an SPT accord....
