Deprive Iran, N.Korea of nuclear energy, U.S. says

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5745480&cKey=1115070615000

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday that states like Iran and North Korea in violation of nuclear nonproliferation obligations should be denied peaceful nuclear energy benefits.

At the start of a conference that aims to take stock of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Bush administration said noncompliance by Iran and North Korea was the most serious proliferation threat and played down criticism the United States and other nuclear weapons states had shirked disarmament duties.

Assistant Secretary of State Stephen Rademaker, the head of the U.S. delegation, asserted NPT language was explicit and unambiguous.

"States asserting their right to receive the benefits of peaceful nuclear development must be in compliance with their nonproliferation obligations under Articles I and II of the NPT," he said.

[Lerkfish]

1. cool. we'll get to see the end of the planet in our lifetime

I really didn't want my six year old son to grow up, anyhow.
(/sarcasm)

[DrDebug]

2. On the same site

Iran, North Korea dominate nuclear conference
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The United States wants to keep the focus on Iran's and North Korea's NPT violations, while other nations argue Moscow and Washington have done too little to reduce their own arsenals. The United States and Russia have a combined arsenal of 28,000 of the world's 30,000 nuclear arms.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Iran and North Korea should abide by the treaty and that the nuclear powers should work toward a "reduced nuclear threat, and ultimately a world free of nuclear weapons."

Rademaker insisted Washington was "fully committed" to fulfilling its NPT obligations and said when the U.S.-Russia Moscow Treaty was implemented in 2012, America would have reduced its 1990 strategic nuclear warhead stockpile by about 80 percent.
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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5745598&cKey=1115077825000

And somehow the point about US and Russia having 93% of all the nukes in the world, doesn't make any headlines and there isn't that much progress to start to reduce the stockpile.

[daleo]

4. I wonder what lies are buried in this statement?

"Rademaker insisted Washington was "fully committed" to fulfilling its NPT obligations and said when the U.S.-Russia Moscow Treaty was implemented in 2012, America would have reduced its 1990 strategic nuclear warhead stockpile by about 80 percent."

Some possibilities:
- neither side seriously expects to implement this far off treaty anyway.
- bombs are going to be removed from a stockpile by some purely bookkeeping dodge.
- bombs will be temporarily deactivated and thus removed from the stockpile, although it will be a simple matter to activate them.
- bombs will be redefined from strategic to tactical, thus removing them from the strategic stockpile.

The neo-cons usually strive to tell a lie through mis-direction rather than outright falsehood, although the latter will do when the former doesn't work.

[bpilgrim]

3. you CAN'T, as has been PROVEN. It is simpleCODE for illegal PREVENTIVE WAR

psst... pass the word :bounce:

peace