Archive for June 28th, 2008

North Korea Destroys Nuclear Reactor Tower

North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs.

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

N. Korea destroys nuclear reactor tower

North Korea has destroyed a highly visible tower at a facility where officials acknowledge they extracted plutonium to build nuclear weapons, according to reports. b. korea destroys nuclear reactor tower; m. korea destroys nuclear

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

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SEOUL, South Korea - It took years of talks, coddling and concessions to prod North Korea to step back from its decades-long effort to make atomic weapons, leading to Friday’s dramatic destruction of its nuclear reactor cooling tower.

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

North Korea Blows Up Nuke Plant

North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, blasting apart the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs.

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

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North Korea declared that it had slightly more plutonium than it had previously admitted. But the declaration falls short of the full accounting that the administration had sought, since it omits any information about North Korea’s

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

North Korea Keeps Promise, Blows Up Nuclear Reactor Tower

“Without this facility, the reactor can’t operate and can’t produce more plutonium for weapons.” North Korea has been under watchful eyes concerning their nuclear weapons program. On Thursday they handed over to China a 60 page

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

North Korea blows its stack

North Korea demolished the cooling tower of its only nuclear reactor today in a gesture of its willingness to end its plutonium weapons programme. The demolition is one of a series of recent concessions and disclosures by the republic.

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Axis Minus One

Steam spewing from the tower meant that the North’s main nuclear reactor was operating to make plutonium. Scratch one member of the Axis of Evil off the list. Could Obama do the same with Iran, or would it only be OK if a Republican

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008