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- WORLD, Page 31World NotesTHE KOREASNo Nukes -- Maybe
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- As "expressions of principle" go, the one reached last week
- by North and South Korea was rich with promise. Under the
- six-point declaration, which follows the reconciliation accord
- signed Dec. 13 by the longtime rivals, they agreed to forgo the
- manufacture, testing and use of nuclear weapons. To ensure a
- denuclearized peninsula, each side pledged to allow inspection
- tours of suspected atomic sites.
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- But the loopholes in the proposed accord could make it
- meaningless. Precisely which sites will be open to inspection
- and how the monitors will operate are questions that have not
- been resolved. The Prime Ministers of the two Koreas expect to
- close the holes and sign a formal pact later this month. Even
- so, the agreement still fails to commit North Korea either to
- signing the International Atomic Energy Agency's
- nonproliferation treaty or to IAEA inspections.
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