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China's nuclear technologies is source of all nuke proliferation to Pakistan, North Korea, Iran and Libya
Slowly the world is realizing how China provided the nuke technology to Pakistan and North Korea. North Korea and Pakistan in turn provided it all to the series of other countries like Iran, Libya and others. Nuclear technology development always needs some seed ideas and start of a plan. That is where China helped these countries.
North Korea said on Thursday that it had manufactured nuclear weapons for its self-defence and was suspending participation in six-way talks on its atomic arms programme for an “indefinite period”.
Washington has recently stepped up its efforts to revive the six-party talks, sending an envoy to the region last week with letters for Chinese President Hu Jintao, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
In North Korea’s clearest statement yet that it already possesses nuclear arms, the official KCNA news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying: “We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and have manufactured nukes to cope with the Bush administration’s evermore undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK (North Korea).”
“Its nuclear weapons will remain nuclear deterrent for self-defence under any circumstances,” the statement added.
U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton told reporters earlier in the day that Washington was ready to resume the talks at any time.
But KCNA said Pyongyang saw no reason to take part now.
“We have wanted the six-party talks but we are compelled to suspend our participation in the talks for an indefinite period till we have recognised that there is justification for us to attend the talks and there are ample conditions and atmosphere to expect positive results from the talks,” the spokesman was quoted as saying.
“The Bush administration termed the DPRK, its dialogue partner, an outpost of tyranny, putting into the shade its hostile policy, and totally rejected it,” the spokesman said.
“This deprived the DPRK of any justification to participate in the six-party talks,” the spokesman added. The United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia have held three rounds of talks with North Korea since August 2003 and have been trying to coax Pyongyang back to the negotiations.
Diplomatic analysts had said Pyongyang wanted to see how U.S. President George W. Bush’s policy toward North Korea shaped up with the start of his second term, and had pointed to late February or early March as the possible timing for a fresh round.
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