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US and North Korea approach accord on nuclear program
The Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Negotiators for the United States and North Korea have received approval for a deal to dismantle the communist nation's nuclear program, the U.S. embassy said yesterday.
The approval came from their respective governments overnight, U.S. Embassy representative Tom Carmichael said.
No details of the agreement were released, but a diplomat close to the talks — requesting anonymity — said the American side did not compromise on any key issues.
South Korea, the chief financier of the nuclear accord, said it was satisfied. It had expressed concerns about a tentative agreement announced Saturday, but President Clinton sent President Kim Youngsam a letter of assurance.
"We have finished our work here in Kuala Lumpur," chief U.S. negotiator Thomas Hubbard said Monday night.
North Korea, after declaring its delegates would be on the first flight home, reversed its position and said they would remain for a final session.
"We decided to stay to see the matter to an end," said North Korean
embassy representative Chol Sung Ho.
He said the negotiations have ended and that the purpose of the meeting was to sign the agreement. U.S. officials would not confirm the signing.
Hubbard had said Monday night that their governments needed to approve the agreement.
South Korea and Japan will play leading roles in providing North Korea with two new reactors to replace the facilities that produce weapons-grade plutonium.
The deal should help ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula, which have been rising over North Korea's threat to restart its nuclear facilities — suspected of weapons development. The facilities have been frozen under the Oct. 21 agreement.
During the talks, which began May 20, North Korea threatened twice to reprocess 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods, which experts said would yield enough plutonium to build three or four bombs. North Korea is believed to already possess enough plutonium for at least one bomb.
Two top U.S. State Department officials are visiting South Korea and Japan to brief their governments on the talks.
U. S. negotiator Robert Gulliucci said in Seoul on Saturday night that
"the devil's in the details," reflecting the difficulty in eliminating ambiguities North Korea might use to reopen negotiations later and seek fresh concessions.
The main dispute at the talks has been about who will provide the reactors. The United States said they must come from South Korea, the only country willing to pay most of the $4 billion cost. North Korea balked, citing safety concerns, but was believed to be acting out of national pride.
State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns refused to say whether the words "South Korea" appeared in the text negotiated by the two sides.
"I believe that the South Korean government is fully supportive of what has taken place," Burns said in Washington.
Seoul said Tuesday it had approved the agreement.
"South Korea has decided to accept the deal, which virtually guarantees South Korea's central role," chief presidential spokesman Yoon Yeo-jun said Tuesday.
The Korea Peninsula Energy Development Organization, a multinational consortium set up to provide the replacement reactors, has been given full authority to choose the design and contractor.
Troops to leave West Bank soon
Minister Yitzhak Rabin was cautious, saying he hoped the July 1 target would be met.
"Starting tomorrow morning, we will take over the areas the army will vacate," said Yehiel Leiter, a settler leader. "We have arms to protect ourselves, and we will defend our lives, our families, our homes and our right to live in Judea and Samaria." the biblical names for the West Bank.
Jewish settlers in the West Bank responded to the Israeli-Palestinian withdraw proposal by threatening to set up new settlements and move armed settler groups into positions left by the army.
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has passed the point of no return, he said. "If it will take two months more or six months more or one year more to solve it ... don't judge us by days or weeks."
Also Monday, senior PLO officials said they would revive the Palestinian city council in east Jerusalem to
JERUSALEM — Israel and the PLO reported progress Monday in talks on a West-Bank troop pullback, and an Israeli official said an accord likely would be reached by the July 1 target date.
Speaking in Paris, Israeli Prime
The official said the two sides had agreed to a troop withdrawal from all West Bank towns except Hebron in the next few months. Palestinian elections then would be held by year's end, he said.
Yasser Arafat's spokesman, Marwan Kanafani, said some progress had been achieved, but he called the Israeli assessment too optimistic. He said there was no agreement yet on the dimensions of withdrawal.
underscore their claim to the disputed city.
The Associated Press
PLO forms government for Jerusalem; Israel refuses to give up city
Israel has said it would never relinquish control of Jerusalem, including the eastern sector it captured from Jordan in 1967. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
Both sides have been trying to increase their hold on the city in advance of talks on the final status of Jerusalem, which are supposed to begin by next year.
Arafat met last week with former members of the council that administered east Jerusalem until 1967. He told them he planned to revive the council.
"Jerusalem has only one municipality and this reality will never change," said Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert in a statement.
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Faisal Hussein, Arafat's minister in charge of Jerusalem affairs, said the Palestinian Cabinet approved the council's revival during the weekend.
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The bombing came one day after police arrested Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, who with his brother, Miguel, leads the Cali cartel from the southwestern city. It supplies 80 percent of the world's cocaine and helped destroy the rival Medellin cartel.
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More than 200 people, many of them street vendors, were wounded in the blast. It ended this city's brief peace after a decade of drug terror. Dozens of people remained hospitalized.
Rodriguez Orejuela faces up to 24 years in prison if convicted on drug trafficking charges. He has said he would admit to crimes to cut prison time.
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"We haven't ruled out any group," said Ramiro Bejarano, head of the secret police. He provided no details on the suspects' arrests.
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Officers in Bogotá did not dismiss a possible cartel role in the Medellin bombing, but also speculated leftist guerrilla involvement.
Another suspect, a 17-year-old Medellin resident, was arrested minutes before the explosion. He
MEDELLIN, Colombia — Police officers went after Colombia's biggest problems Monday, first battling violence by arresting suspects in a lethal public bombing. Secondly, they fought drugs by hunting for the second of two brothers believed to run the notorious Cali cocaine cartel.
The Associated Press
Several people were arrested as suspects in the bombing of a street festival that killed 29 people Saturday in Medellin, Columbia. Anonymous telephone callers claiming to be drug traffickers said they carried out the attack Saturday night in reprisal for the arrest of a drug kingpin, said Fernando Botero, defense
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