North Korea
The world set itself on a direct collision course with the unpredictable and hermetically sealed Communist regime of North Korea last night, adopting a resolution at the UN Security Council demanding that it end its nuclear weapons programme and desist from further testing.
Independent on Sunday 15th Oct 2006
Sunday Times 15th Oct 2006
Russia and China continued to haggle yesterday over the final wording of a United Nations Security Council resolution imposing non-military sanctions on North Korea, further delaying the expected vote, writes Philip Sherwell in New York.
Sunday Telegraph 15th Oct 2006
Kim Jong-il isn’t the only delusional politician with nuclear weapons. Iain Macwhirter on a lack of rational thinking in the UK Government.
Sunday Herald 15th Oct 2006
North Koreans living in Japan have become the target of a concerted campaign of threats and intimidation in the wake of Pyongyang’s testing of a nuclear bomb last week.
Observer 15th Oct 2006
It is the economic policy of the Bush administration that has hobbled its efforts to veto North Korea’s application to join the nuclear club.
Sunday Times 15th Oct 2006
RADIOACTIVE air has been traced in North Korea, indicating that Kim Jong-il’s government did carry out nuclear tests. However, several other tests carried out by US scientists have failed to determine whether an explosion took place.
Edinburgh Evening News 14th Oct 2006
Michael Portillo says: since the end of the cold war Washington has not matched its monopoly of power with either humility or wisdom. Its foreign policy failures have been humbling. Intending to show that it could project power anywhere in the world, it has instead demonstrated the severe limitations of its military and diplomatic reach.
Sunday Times 15th Oct 2006
BNG Privatisation
Amicus has called on the Government to sack the two men who run the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the body responsible for the UK’s state-owned nuclear sites. Sir Anthony Cleaver and Dr Ian Oxburgh are chairman and chief executive respectively of the NDA. Dougie Rooney, the national energy officer for Amicus, told Mr Darling that he believed tensions between the two men had contributed to the “shambolic” sale process of BNG, which operates the NDA’s sites. Mr Rooney also blamed BNG’s parent company, BNFL, for the mess.
Independent on Sunday 15th Oct 2006
Nuclear Transports
THE packaging for shipments of radioactive materials across the UK is so poor it could breach safety regulations, putting the environment and public health at risk. A nuclear industry safety adviser has revealed that radioactive materials are often transported by hospitals and factories in “secondhand cardboard boxes” and other “dubious packages”. There are about half a million movements of radioactive materials by road, rail or air every year in the UK. About 300,000 of them are low-level isotopes for medical, industrial or research purposes, known in the trade as “excepted packages”. But, according to Phil McNamara, dangerous goods safety adviser for British Energy, the rules for transporting such packages are open to misinterpretation and in dire need of reform.
Sunday Herald 15th Oct 2006
