The Twilight of the Bombs by Richard Rhodes

Author:Richard Rhodes [Rhodes, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-59373-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2010-02-12T05:00:00+00:00

As a result of the reformers’ victory, the North signed a joint declaration with South Korea at the end of December 1991 on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that proscribed even the production of plutonium and HEU, a restriction that exceeded NPT requirements. The North was then prepared to sign its IAEA safeguards agreement as soon as the U.S. certified that all nuclear weapons had been removed from the Korean Peninsula. Certification followed in early January 1992, and the safeguards signing took place in Vienna at the end of the month. Russia’s announcement in March that it was canceling technical and financial assistance for North Korean nuclear-power-plant construction (it had ceased exporting nuclear equipment and fuel to North Korea the previous year) underlined the urgency of the North’s transition from Russian to American patronage. In April it officially ratified the IAEA safeguards agreement and began compiling its safeguards declarations. Those arrived in Vienna at the beginning of May in the form of a detailed and surprisingly revealing 150-page inventory. Blix and his three-man team of experts, who had been briefed extensively by U.S. intelligence, traveled to Yongbyon on 11 May for an initial six-day visit, to be followed by IAEA inspections, and the confrontation between North Korea and the IAEA began.

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