North Korea rocks nuclear deal
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-20 21:30

While official reaction to the end of the fourth round of talks had been upbeat, skeptics had already said the deal was long on words, vague on timing and sequence, and short on action.

The North's comments exposed those shortcomings.

"The U.S. should not even dream of the issue of the DPRK's dismantlement of its nuclear deterrent before providing LWRs," said the statement, published by the KCNA news agency. "This is our just and consistent stand as solid as a deeply rooted rock."

DPRK is short for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. LWRs are light-water reactors that experts say are more proliferation-resistant than others.

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