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US urges North Korea to come clean on uranium
North Korea has not addressed US suspicions of enriching uranium when it released an inventory of its nuclear plans this week, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday.
- Agencies
- Published: 14:22 June 28, 2008
Seoul: North Korea has not addressed US suspicions of enriching uranium when it released an inventory of its nuclear plans this week, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday.
On Thursday, North Korea delivered a long-delayed list of its nuclear activities but questions about is alleged nuclear programme still remains.
"Thus far we don't have the answers we need on either," Rice said in a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan.
North Korea has denied US accusations of proliferating technology to the likes of Syria and having a clandestine programme to enrich uranium for weapons.
Rice called on the North to live up to its obligations under the pact it reached with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.
In a symbolic move to show its commitment to the nuclear deal, North Korea toppled the cooling tower at its plutonium-producing reactor on Friday.
Sung Kim, a State Department envoy, said on Saturday that there may not be enough time to complete the North's denuclearisation before President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009.
Kim said toppling the tower was a "significant disablement step" that was also an emotional moment for the North Korean nuclear engineers on hand to witness the event.
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