http://www.metafilter.com/tags/nuclearprograms Posts tagged with 'nuclearprograms' at MetaFilter. Wed, 19 Mar 2003 01:26:53 -0800 Wed, 19 Mar 2003 01:26:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/24422/How%2Dto%2DDeal%2DWith%2DNorth%2DKorea%2Dand%2DQampA%2DShould%2DUS%2DLaunch%2DDirect%2DTalks%2Dwith%2DN%2DKorea Here are two thoughtful pieces on the North Korean Crisis.<br><br> From Foreign Affairs comes <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20030301faessay10336/james-t-laney-jason-t-shaplen/how-to-deal-with-north-korea.html" title="SUMMARY - Pyongyang's belligerent behavior should not obscure other dramatic conciliatory steps North Korea has taken in recent years--steps suggesting that, even now, a solution lies within reach. The trick is to craft a plan that does not reward the North for its misdeeds. In such a plan, all major outside powers should guarantee the security of the entire Korean Peninsula first. This will remove Pyongyang's excuse for nuclear proliferation--and break the deadlock on the world's last Cold War frontier.">How to Deal With North Korea</a>.<br><br>From the New York Times comes<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/mustreads031003.html?pagewanted=print&position=top" title="Donald Gregg, U.S. ambassador to South Korea in the first Bush administration, says the situation with North Korea is ''quite dangerous'' and that immediate direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang are necessary to stem North Korea's development of nuclear weapons."><i>Q&A: Should U.S. Launch Direct Talks with North Korea?</i></a><br><br>Here, by the way, is the fourth footnote from <i>How to Deal With North Korea </i>:<br><br><i>Had the Agreed Framework not been signed in 1994, the North's plutonium-based program would by today have produced enough plutonium for up to 30 nuclear weapons. Critics of the accord should not ignore this fact.</i> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24422 Wed, 19 Mar 2003 01:26:53 -0800 NorthKorea nuclearprograms nuclearweapons nukes plutonium UnitedStates y2karl