NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 18, 1994
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Countries reach draft agreement
North Korea to ease tension in peninsula
The Associated Press
GENEVA — The United States and North Korea reached a draft agreement to ease months of tension over the North's nuclear program, the chief U.S. negotiator said yesterday.
Robert L. Gallucci said the draft would be sent to Washington and to Pyongyang for approval and that negotiators hoped to sign the document in Geneva on Friday.
He declined to give details of the accord, but said it was "broadly acceptable and positive" for the United States and North Korea's neighbors, including South Korea and Japan. It also addressed concerns about North Korea's past nuclear program, he said.
The United States and others fear North Korea has already made at least one atomic bomb, although North Korea insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
The agreement builds on one
reached in August in which North Korea offered to open up its nuclear facilities to international inspection and scrap its outdated atomic energy program.
In return, Washington offered lowlevel diplomatic ties and help in building safer nuclear power plants.
Since then, little progress has been made. Some speculated that a power vacuum in North Korea following the death of Kim Il Sung made it impossible for negotiators in Geneva to act with authority.
In Beijing, Chinese Defense Minister Chi Haotian told U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry yesterday that China, North Korea's main ally, would try to help end the impasse. A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said China did not want North Korea to have nuclear weapons.
South Korea and Japan also have long wanted a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
But South Korea had been concerned by reports that Washington might give North Korea five years before requiring inspections of two
suspected nuclear waste sites at its Yongbyon complex.
The West fears the sites are being used to store nuclear waste that would prove Pyongyang has been secretly developing a weapons capability. North Korea maintains the sites are for conventional military uses and so are off limits to international checks, which could be a cover-up for spying.
There were also reports the United States would let North Korea store 8,000 spent fuel rods in a concrete cell within North Korea rather than in a third country.
Pyongyang provoked a crisis earlier this year by removing the rods from its Yongbyon nuclear plant in defiance of inspectors from International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear watchdog. It is feared that reprocessing the rods would produce enough plutonium for five nuclear bombs.
The rods are currently corroding in a cooling pond, and if they stay there much longer, there will be a risk of radiation leakage.
Jordan, Israel to sign accord to end hostility
The Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan — President Clinton will be on hand next week when Jordan and Israel formally end nearly 50 years of hostility, but the man perhaps most important to expanding Mideast peace, Syrian leader Hafez Assad, will not be there.
Assad "should look around," Israeli President Ezer Weizman said in Jerusalem. "He may be the last in line" to make peace with Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin also said the accord initialed yesterday would increase pressure on the Syrians.
But in Damascus, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharara dismissed the Israel-Jordan pact as insignificant.
"Irespective of the number of agreements they have signed with the Arabs, all Arabs and Israel realize that peace has not been achieved so far," he said.
He put responsibility for making peace soley in Israel's court.
"We hope the Israeli government will realize the fact that without
achieving peace with Syria and Lebanon, there will be no peace in the region," he said. "This is the reality."
Syria fought Israel in 1948, as well as in 1967, 1973 and during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Yesterday Syrian state-run newspapers warned that the Jewish state's motives should not be trusted.
The papers said Israel's stalled peace talks with Syria and Lebanon, under effective Syrian control, demonstrated that Israel is still playing for time, seeking to pick off the Arabs one by one to weaken their bargaining positions.
Syria has said repeatedly there must be a comprehensive peace settlement, rather than the series of bilateral treaties that has long been Israel's strategy.
"If there were any truthful intentions on the part of Israel, the Middle East peace process would not have stumbled on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks," the Tishrin Daily said in a front-page editorial.
The Syrian-Israeli talks have been stalled since February, despite U.S. efforts to get them going again.
Peace talks with Syria are snagged on Damascus' demand that Israel relinquish the Golan Heights captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Polls show most Israeli oppose giving up the Golan.
Israel has offered a phased and partial withdrawal over several years and wants complete normalization of relations. Syria rejects the offer.
Tishrin said that after three years, the peace process "is still stuck by Israel's intransigence and alleged security pretexts and fears."
King Hussein of Jordan, who maintained clandestine contacts with Israeli leaders for years despite the state of war between the two countries, insisted the treaty heralded a new era.
Iseali TV said the full accord would be signed Oct. 26 on the Jordan-Israel border.
Clinton said the United States is pressing Israel and Syria to make peace, too. "We're continuing to work there and we're encouraged," he said. "We have to keep working until it's all done."
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