It should come as no big surprise that nK will miss the nuclear disclosure deadline it agreed to in February. As I predeicted, here, here, here and here , Pyongyang has identified U.S offenses necessitating the delay. Specifically, nK is decrying the U.S. military activity in South Korea (otherwise known as routine training) as “flexing…military muscle.” Per the Yonhap news agency:
“Dialogue and clamor for war cannot stand together” … “The U.S. should abandon its hostile policy toward the North.”
It appears the reason for the delay in the declaration is a difference of opinion over the the country’s uranium enrichment program and the amount of plutonium produced. The U.S. feels its greater than nK is admitting to.
The real crux for the delay, suggest South Korean analysts, is nK’s perception that the U.S. is dragging its feet in removing the country from a list of terror-sponsoring states. This is likely to result in a lull in the denuclearization program for a few months.
The truth is that nK is will move forward only when promised more concessions and aid.
(as always)
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