Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.
Yukiya Amano
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ALEXANDER ALEXEYEV Clearly the North Korean desire is for a light-water reactor, and the North Korean desire is to reta...
JAMES LEACH We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to pea...
ALEXANDER ALEXEYEV To be frank, there is a difference in recognition between North Korea and the other countries. In pa...
KENICHIRO SASAE The light-water reactor for us is a non-starter.
CHRISTOPHER HILL The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubli...
MITT ROMNEY So if North Korea has made a bomb... Dr AQ Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grad...
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ELLIOTT ABRAMS Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, s...
KIM DAE JUNG Currently Iran has no enrichment capacity there is no possible way Iranians can enrich uranium.
ALEXANDER RUMYANTSEV Currently Iran has no enrichment capacity there is no possible way Iranians can enrich uranium,
ALEXANDER RUMYANTSEV Currently Iran has no enrichment capacity - there is no possible way Iranians can enrich uranium.
ALEXANDER RUMYANTSEV I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share wh...
ADAM JOHNSON The pullback in crude is mostly related to the tentative deal between Russia and Iran on uranium enr...
FERGAL SMITH We believe that there is room within the IAEA to resolve this. Iran should give up uranium enrichmen...
WU HAILONG Iran has removed the seals from a uranium enrichment plant and therefore urgent consultations are ne...
SERGEY LAVROV All of North Korea is a jail.
KIM YOUNG-SAM We have opened the window of opportunity for the DPRK to have a light-water reactor in the future,
SONG MIN If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiou...
BARBARA DEMICK Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but fro...
YUKIYA AMANO The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
YUKIYA AMANO A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
LESLIE DEWAN Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and i...
VLADIMIR PUTIN The three nations plan to review the current status of talks with North Korea and exchange opinions ...
FOREIGN MINISTRY We will immediately lift the suspension of uranium enrichment and will halt implementation of the Ad...
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West ...
KIM DAE JUNG It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North K...
JOSEPH CIRINCIONE It is extremely regrettable that Iran restarted uranium enrichment activities despite calls (not to ...
YOSHINORI KATORI Iran is a much tougher climb diplomatically [than North Korea].
MICHAEL KREPON I don't detect among any of the parties a willingness to construct a light water reactor which will ...
CHRISTOPHER HILL The Russian proposal is based on the establishment of a joint Iran-Russia company on Russian soil fo...
JAVAD VAIDI It's not at all exotic. Every time you look at the water in a nuclear reactor, the bluish glow you s...
DONALD SCHNEIDER North Korea is very dangerous, and we cannot miscalculate, because the effects upon South Korea and ...
RICHARD LUGAR Chinese leaders repeatedly state they want a free and more open North Korea. China is trying to help...
JIN LINBO I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT North Korea is just avoiding (being subject to) economic sanctions.
TERUAKI MASUMOTO In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear fac...
JIM GERLACH I think we're in danger as a result of the Bush administration policy towards North Korea of turning...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN The Russian-Iranian basic agreement to establish a joint venture on uranium enrichment on Russian te...
KONSTANTIN KOSACHEV Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
WILLIAM MAXWELL Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI North Korea has a substantial and chronic food deficit,
GERALD BOURKE At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building ...
BARTON GELLMAN For me, there is no doubt that the process of producing nuclear fuel in Iran will be accomplished. T...
GHOLAMREZA AGHAZADEH I would welcome more flexibility from Tehran in connection with the well-known Russian proposal on j...
KONSTANTIN KOSACHEV Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN Inside, I’m assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment’s hardwired...
ADAM JOHNSON I felt like a frog that had just come out of its pit, from which it had contemplated the circle of s...
HYOK KANG So this is the way we live now: conditioned by the awareness that no North Korean provocation, howev...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Real stories like this, human ones, could get you sent to prison, and it didn’t matter what they w...
ADAM JOHNSON North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.
KIM DAE JUNG The president is greatly concerned about the humanitarian situation in North Korea.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN For China nowadays, North Korea is important for strategic, not ideological, reasons.
SHI YINHONG The order to resume uranium enrichment has been issued and, in accordance with that, the Iranian Ato...
JAVAD VAEIDI The order to resume uranium enrichment has been issued and, in accordance with that, the Iranian Ato...
JAVAD VAEEDI The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North ...
ARI FLEISCHER We are waiting for the IAEA director general's report. We also hope that Iran would soon make a fina...
DINO PATTI DJALAL In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and in...
OLIVER NORTH Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER We do not think there is an issue of refugees between China and North Korea
ZHANG QIYUE The format this time has led North Korea to understand this is more than a bilateral conversation. I...
FREDERICK JONES Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.
KIM DAE JUNG I think the uranium enrichment program is the 800-pound gorilla in the negotiating room. You can't s...
JOHN BOLTON This is not the sort of thing that shows up in satellite photographs. Whether in CIA headquarters in...
BARBARA DEMICK We have a working satellite.
JAVIER BENEDICTO Geopolitical tension, with Iran restarting uranium enrichment ... coupled with high oil prices stock...
BARCLAYS CAPITAL I think North Korea ?s understanding of China?s economic reforms is changing and deepening, and this...
XU WENJI North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed worl...
BARBARA DEMICK North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself.
DAVID ALBRIGHT If the Security Council takes any punitive action, like economic sanctions, North Korea has said thi...
WENDY SHERMAN North Korea is one of the major proliferators and it appears that they are busy proliferating again,
RICHARD ARMITAGE I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kenne...
RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD According to the presidential order (last week), and to the law passed by the parliament (last year)...
JAVAD VAEIDI To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government.
STEVEN MAGEE Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES We urge the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) not to restart its frozen nuclear facilitie...
LOU FINTOR We urge the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) not to restart its frozen nuclear facilitie...
LOU FINTOR That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation ...
SUSAN RICE In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Bush needs this treaty. The U.S. has no energy to deal with North Korea militarily.
YAN XUETONG The best is if talks with the United States go well and North Korea gives up its weapons.
YOSHIAKI ONOUE For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA I'll remind you that the West signed a deal with North Korea, said it would make the world a saf...
NAFTALI BENNETT There is a lot of international pressure and urging for North Korea to return to the talks and to re...
RICHARD BOUCHER A real breakthrough still remains possible if the other five parties can avoid being distracted by t...
RALPH COSSA I told them (North Korea) repeatedly that the Japanese public's attitude is becoming tougher. I told...
KOICHI HARAGUCHI I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.
YI SO-YEON The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uraniu...
BILL GATES North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
BARBARA DEMICK