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Article: Going bang; North Korea.(Another North Korean spectacular)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2008
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Time's up for Yongbyon
Finding the truth in the debris
AS NORTH KOREAN spectaculars go, the promise to blow up the cooling tower of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the source of plutonium for Kim Jong Il's nuclear arsenal, is a welcome new departure. The North Korean leader's previous attention-grabber was the detonation of a nuclear "device", possibly a small bomb, in October 2006.
Ironically, it was that blast which at last got China to lean hard on Mr Kim. This helped propel forward six-party talks that also include America, South Korea, Japan and Russia. As The Economist went to press this week, China was preparing to receive a long-sought ...