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U.S. says North is
too eager to sell missiles
by staff
reporter
April 17, 2002
A ranking U.S. State Department official said Washington is greatly
concerned with North Korea because it is always willing to sell weapons to any
buyer who is paying cash.
John Stern Wolf, who heads the department's
Bureau of Nonproliferation, said Tuesday at a press conference in Washington
that despite the controversy over President George W. Bush's "axis of evil"
remark, the term accurately reflects reality. Mr. Wolf criticized Pyeongyang for
its eagerness to sell missiles indiscriminately.
Reminding reporters
that the North has lost much international confidence for failing to stick to
the Geneva Agreed Framework, he said the nation is indeed in the same league as
Iran and Iraq, the other two nations Mr. Bush branded as "evil."
Iran is
suspected of developing long-range missiles with assistance from North Korea,
Russia and China. Iraq has ignored its treaty with the UN that ended the Gulf
War for the past 11 years and allegedly tried to proliferate weapons of mass
destruction.
Adding that there are still other countries willing to go
down the same dangerous path the North, Iran and Iraq are on, Mr. Wolf stressed
that the United States is ready to take unilateral action if it decides its
national interest is being directly threatened.
Claiming that
nonproliferation treaties form the basis of U.S. weapons sales policy, Mr. Wolf
said the Untied States wishes the world would abide by the Chemical Weapons
Convention and Biological Weapons Convention to the letter. He added that
Washington is pushing for negotiations with Moscow to come up with appropriate
measures to realize the goal.
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