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Recent Developments

5 January 2010: China's UN Ambassador Zhang Yesui urged the United States and North Korea to seize the moment and take positive steps so that six-party talks on the North's nuclear programme can resume quickly. At a news conference, Zhang said the most important thing now is for the key parties to "meet each other halfway so that ... the six-party talks will start as soon as possible." (AP, "China urges US and NKorea to seize the moment and take steps to resume six-party nuclear talks," The Canadian Press, 5 January 2010.)

5 January 2010: South Korea's Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan urged North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament talks and called on China to step up efforts to bring Pyongyang back to the table. He told Yonhap news agency,"I think the North has now secured all face-saving measures (it needed) to return to the six-party talks. Now is the time for the North and China to respond more actively (to calls for resuming the talks). ("S.Korea urges N.Korea to return to nuclear talks," AFP, 5 January 2010.)

6 December 2009: Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, the first envoy sent by U.S. President Barack Obama to North Korea, is expected to arrive in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a three-day stay where he will meet top North Korean officials but not leader Kim Jong-il. The meetings are aimed to convince North Korean officials to return to the Six Party Talks. (Reuters, "U.S. Envoy in South Korea en Route to Nuclear Talks With North," New York Times, 6 December 2009.)

For news from September 2005–November 2009, please see our Archived News.

Letter dated 3 September 2009 from the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (pdf), 4 September 2004.

UN Security Council Resolution 1874 (2009) (pdf), adopted by the UNSC at its 6141st meeting, 12 June 2009.

Update on the Six-Party Talks, Fact Sheet, US Department of State Office of the Spokesman, 10 May 2008.

Judy Aita, "North Korea Talks on Track, U.S. Negotiator Says," Press Release, US Department of State, 7 March 2007.

Joint Statement from the Third Session of the Fifth Round of the Six-Party Talks, 13 February 2007.

Office of the Spokesman, "Initial Actions To Implement Six-Party Joint Statement," US Department of State, Washington, DC, 13 February 2007.

Statement by President Bush, White House Press Office, 13 February 2007.

UN Security Council Resolution 1718 (2006) (pdf), adopted by the UNSC at its 5551st meeting, 14 October 2006.

"North Korea To Be Key Topic on Bush China Visit, Aide Says," US State Department, 19 November 2005.

China, DPRK, Japan, ROK, Russia, US, "Joint Statement of the Fourth Round of the Six-Party Talks," Beijing, 19 September 2005.

Sharon A. Squassoni, “North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons: How Soon an Arsenal?” CRS Report for Congress RS21391 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Services, The Library of Congress, 1 August 2005)

IAEA Board of Governors, “Chairman’s Conclusion on Item 5 (b): Nuclear Verification,” Report by the Director General on the implementation of safeguards in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 3 March 2005.

"Remarks With European Union President Jean Asselborn, European Union High Representative and Secretary General Javier Solana, and European Union External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner," United States State Department Press Release, 10 February 2005.

KCNA News Agency, “N Korea’s statement in full,” BBC Online, 10 February 2005.

International Atomic Energy Agency – In Focus: IAEA and DPRK

Comprehensive IAEA Timeline of key events in the IAEA/DPRK Relationship (1977-2005)

IAEA Fact Sheet on DPRK Safeguards

Complete Text of the 1994 Agreement between the United States and North Korea

John Feffer, "Talking Peace, Preparing for War," Inter Press Service News Agency, 14 April 2008.

James Acton, "Can We Verify NORK Pu Declaration?," Arms Control Wonk, 7 December 2007.

Paul Kerr, "North Korea Talks Stalled by Banking Dispute," Arms Control Today, April 2007.

René Wadlow, "The Korean Peace Process: A Major Step Forward," Newropeans Magazine, 15 February 2007.

Paul Kerr, "No Progress at North Korea Talks," Arms Control Today, January/February 2007.

Paul Kerr, "Iran, North Korea Deepen Missile Cooperation," Arms Control Tolday, January/February 2007.

Dingli Shen, "Meaningfully engaging North Korea," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 17 January 2007.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, "North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test," Monterey Institute of International Studies, 10 October 2006.

Statement by Sam Nunn about the Apparent North Korean Nuclear Test, Nuclear Threat Initiative, 9 October 2006.

Global Security Newswire, "North Korean Crisis Still Stalled One Year Later," Nuclear Threat Initiative, 18 September 2006.

Paul Kerr, "News Analysis: North Korea: Are the Six-Party Nuclear Talks Dead?," Arms Control Today, September 2006.

Paul Kerr, "Security Council Condemns NK Missile Tests," Arms Control Today, September 2006.

David Krieger, “Why Nations Go Nuclear,” The Sunflower, Issue 103, December 2005.

Daryl G. Kimball, "'Getting Serious' About North Korea," Arms Control Today, Washington, DC: Arms Control Association, December 2005.

Paul Kerr, "North Korea Increasing Weapons Capabilities," Arms Control Today, Washington, DC: Arms Control Association, December 2005.

Hui Zhang, "Don't blame Beijing: In its own way, China is actually trying to influence North Korea," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, vol. 61, no. 5, September/October 2005.

Seven Questions: Dealing with North Korea," Foreign Policy, July 2005.

Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen, “North Korea’s nuclear program, 2005,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 61, No. 03, May/June 2005.

Bernard Gwertzman, “Korea Expert Pinkston: Six-Nation North Korea Talks 'Are Dead',” interview with Daniel A. Pinkston, Council on Foreign Relations, 9 May 2005.

Andrew F. Diamond and Daniel A. Pinkston, “Don’t Outsource North Korea Problem to China,” The Korea Herald, 25 April 2005.

Special Report on the North Korea Nuclear Weapons Statement, East Asia Nonproliferation Program (Monterey, CA: Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 11 February 2005)

John Burroughs, "Nonproliferation Treaty Applies to Both North Korea and the United States," Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation (New York: Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, Spring 2003)

Arms Control Association, North Korea Special Issue, Arms Control Today, May 2003.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, "Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework," Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation (New York: Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, 23 January 2003)

Norman D. Levin and Yong-Sup Han, Sunshine in Korea: The South Korean Debate over Policies Toward North Korea (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2002)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Korea

Center for Nonproliferation Studies: North Korea Resources, East Asia Non-Proliferation Program, Comprehensive Timeline (1977-1999)

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies: North Korea Special Collection

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): Proliferation Issues

Federation of American Scientists (FAS): North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program

Institute for Science and International Security: North Korea

Library of Congress North Korea Profile

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI): North Korea

Jason Qian and Xiaohui (Anne) Wu,"Ending Mutually Assured Mistrust," The Korea Herald, 21 November 2005.

Xiaohui (Anne) Wu, "Bottling the Nuclear Genie," The Boston Globe, 9 October 2005.

John S. Park, "Inside Multilateralism: The Six-Party Talks," The Washington Quarterly, 28, no. 4, Autumn 2005.

Xiaohui (Anne) Wu, "Kim Jong-il Practicing the 'Art of War'," The Korea Herald, 14 August 2005.

David C. Kang, The Avoidable Crisis in North Korea (Philadelphia, PA: Foreign Policy Research Institute, Summer 2003)

Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs: Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program

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