"It's expected that a disablement implementation team will go to the North on Nov. 1 with actual disablement (beginning) in mid-November," Baek Jong-chun, senior presidential security adviser, said at a forum in Seoul.
..North Korea -- acting under a Feb. 13 deal struck during six-nation talks with the U.S, South Korea, China, Russia and Japan -- promised to abandon its nuclear ambitions in return for 1 million tons of oil aid, as well as political concessions." - Source: Boston Globe
North Korea, which currently possesses about 100 pounds of plutonium, will no longer be able to produce Pu.
Does this mean no more nuclear production *at all* or no more nuclear protection in a main facility? Because there's a huge difference.
ReplyDeleteProduction, not protection, my bad.
ReplyDeleteThe article does not specifically state all nuclear facilities will be dismantled. It just mentions the main ones will be.
ReplyDeleteI should have mentioned this in the article, but the Yongbyon complex (main) is said to contain 12 bombs made from plutonium.