Politic history of Korea

Running Head : The nuclear weapon problem of North Korea

The nuclear weapon problem of North Korea

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[Name of the institute] The nuclear weapon problem of North Korea

Introduction

North Korea 's admission that it was conducting a nuclear weapons program in violation of the Agreed Framework has revived an acute sense of nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula . The violation led to the difficult decision by the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO ) on 16 November 2002 to suspend the annual supply of 500 ,000 tonnes

of heavy fuel oil to North Korea . Pyongyang , for its part , maintains that it has not violated the Agreed Framework . In retaliation for KEDO 's decision to suspend the supply of heavy oil North Korea removed monitoring devices at the Yongbyon reactor facilities on 22 December moved 1 ,000 fresh fuel rods to the plant on 26 December expelled inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA ) on 31 December withdrew from the NPT on 10 January 2003 and reactivated the 5MWe reactor on 26 February . Other threats have included a vow to treat any sanctions by the UN Security Council as an act of war , the firing of a surface-to-sea missile on 24 February , and an incident on 3 March in which four North Korean fighter planes intercepted a US surveillance aircraft in international airspace

The USA , meanwhile , has suggested the possibility of suspending the construction of light-water reactors (LWRs ) and has deployed 24 long-range bombers to Guam to...