UPDATE: Can you believe it the KBS filed a story full of errors and half truths? One Free Korea has a posting on the story including a comment by Bruce Klinger that clears up the misinformation in the KBS report.
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It looks like the inevitable giving in to North Korean demands in order to keep the Six Party Charade alive is about to happen:
U.S. chief nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill has told the U.S. Senate he believes North Korea does not have the capability to produce uranium for nuclear operations.
Hill stated that according to inspection results of North Korea’s facilities, the aluminum tubes suspected of being used for uranium enrichment have been cleared of those allegations, although the inspection was only carried out on a number of the tubes.
The assistant secretary said in a Senate hearing that the tubes had been used for the manufacturing of two different types of conventional weapons including artillery.
The statement came after the negotiator hinted that Pyongyang does not have the capability of enriching uranium. [KBS News]
It seems like Christopher Hill is desperate to get a deal done with North Korea which has been playing the delay game with the US over the nuclear negotiations by refusing to fully declare all their nuclear programs. One of the programs the North Koreans have been refusing to declare is their highly enriched uranium program despite all the evidence saying they do. So I’m inferring that what Christopher Hill is trying to do is to set conditions where North Korea doesn’t have to declare their uranium programs by claiming they can’t enrich the uranium anyway so why declare it.
While Christopher Hill is making excuses for Kim Jong-il, the North Koreans are busy making threats about an indirect nuclear attack against America.
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8:47 pm on February 7th, 2008 1
Yea and that Nuclear test a couple of years ago was just nothing
11:31 pm on February 7th, 2008 2
[...] GI Korea links to a KBS report, sourced to Hill’s testimony, claiming that samples of North Korean aluminum did not test positive for enriched uranium. U.S. chief nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill has told the U.S. Senate he believes North Korea does not have the capability to produce uranium for nuclear operations. Hill stated that according to inspection results of North Korea’s facilities, the aluminum tubes suspected of being used for uranium enrichment have been cleared of those allegations, although the inspection was only carried out on a number of the tubes.  [KBS Global] [...]