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NATION
THE BATTALION
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Monday, April 21, 2003
Bush believes N. Korea
can end nuclear program
By Jennifer Loven
ASSOCIATED PRESS .
CRAWFORD, Texas — Days
ahead of scheduled talks with
North Korea, President Bush on
Sunday gave diplomatic pressure
a “good chance” of succeeding
in coaxing Pyongang to end its
tension-producing nuclear
weapons programs.
Along with the United States,
regional neighbors China, Japan
and South Korea are opposed to
a nuclear-armed North Korea.
Bush cited that unanimity of
purpose — if not of strategy —
as reason for optimism.
believe that all four of us
ejworking together have a good
chance of convincing North
Korea to abandon her ambitions
to develop nuclear arsenals,”
Bush told reporters.
The president, taking a Five-
day vacation at his central
Texas ranch, spoke after attend
ing Easter services at nearby
Fort Hood.
He also lauded China’s acces
sion to host talks with North
Korea, planned for as early as
this week, as a good sign.
“The key thing in the North
Korea agenda is that China is
assuming a very important
responsibility,” he said. “China’s
policy is for a nuclear-weapons-
free peninsula. And now that
they’re engaged in the process, it
makes it more likely that’s going
to occur.”
The United States has insist
ed on a multilateral approach to
defuse the nuclear standoff,
rather than the direct U.S.-
North Korea engagement that
Pyongang had been demanding.
But the talks — which would
be the first substantive discus
sions since U.S. officials said in
October that North Korea had
acknowledged the existence of a
uranium-based nuclear weapons
program — were thrown into
doubt on Friday when North
Korea appeared to announce it
had taken steps that could yield
six to eight bombs within
months.
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The key thing in
the North Korea
agenda is that China
is assuming a
very important
responsibility.
— George W. Bush
President
Later, it became unclear
whether the work had actually
begun or the translation was
faulty. U.S. and South Korean
officials said there is no proof
that reprocessing of spent
nuclear fuel rods was underway,
and suggested the report may
have been a mistranslation of the
vaguely worded Korean version.
The United States believes
North Korea already has one or
two nuclear bombs and can
extract enough plutonium from
the fuel rods to make several
more within months.
Bush, asked about the talks
announced last week, did not
directly address whether they
will take place.
And a Bush spokeswoman
said afterward that the presi
dent’s reference to China’s
involvement should not be taken
as an indication the talks are
definitely on. Consultations with
allies in the region continue and
no final decision has been made,
deputy press secretary Claire
Buchan said.
Earlier Sunday, the chairman
of the Senate Intelligence
Committee said he thought the
meeting would go ahead.
“China’s the key here, and
China has made some signifi
cant changes here just recently
in their attitude to North Korea,”
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told
“Fox News Sunday.”
Bush’s upbeat outlook on
what Roberts called the “number
one” security threat facing the
United States contrasted, howev
er, with another angry pro
nouncement from North Korea.
In the state-run Rodong
Sinmun newspaper, the commu
nist government said Sunday
that North and South Koreans
“should firmly unite as one to
resolutely smash the U.S. moves
for a war of aggression in order
to protect the destiny of the
nation and the future of a reuni
fied country.”
The statement underscored
the huge task ahead for the talks,
if they proceed.
North Korea repeatedly has
accused the United States of
planning to attack it after the
Iraq war, a charge denied by
Washington. The North has
often tried to drive a wedge
between South Korea and its
chief ally, the United States.
And though North Korea has
never admitted or denied having
nuclear bombs, it has closely
guarded what it sees as its right
to develop them.
Feds investigating double agent
By Danny Pollock
ASSOCIATED PRESS
0
LOS ANGELES — Katrina Leung was a
epublican political activist, a prominent Southern
"alifornia businesswoman and an FBI informer
laid $1.7 million for her work and expenses over
wo decades.
It was in the latter role, authorities allege, that
he developed sexual relationships with two FBI
lounterinteliigence agents and was able to steal
J.S. secrets for the Chinese government.
As the suspected double agent now sits in a fed-
ral detention center, authorities are trying to
letermine just how much damage she did to U.S.
ntelligence efforts and weapons programs.
“This is not a pretty story about our intelligence
ommunity,” said Michael Greenberger, a former
ustice Department official in the Clinton adminis-
ration who is now a law professor at the
Jniversity of Maryland Center for Health and
domeland Security. “If this is the quality of intel-
igence going on, it raises real questions.”
Court documents accuse Leung, 49, of a long list
severe security breaches, including tipping off
Chinese authorities to U.S. agents looking for
tuclear secrets in China, and revealing names of FBI
igents investigating Chinese spying in this country.
FBI Director Robert Mueller has said the ban
ning of intelligence assets needs to be over-
tauled to prevent such breaches in the future. And
ourt documents filed by the U.S. attorney's
iffice say the FBI will have to reassess all of its
ictions and intelligence analyses involving
eung’s activities.
“A central goal of this reassessment will be to
determine which foreign counterintelligence
investigations have been thwarted or compro
mised by her communication of information to her
People’s Republic of China handlers as well as by
disinformation she may have provided her FBI
handlers,” according to the documents filed by the
U.S. attorney’s office.
Among the accusations against Leung is one
that she gave Chinese officials the name of an FBI
agent who went to China in 1992 after investigat
ing a critical nuclear espionage case in this country
in the 1980s.
“Such surveillance could well reveal FBI coun
terintelligence techniques and persons of interest
to the FBI,” the court documents state.
The documents do not name the man, but sever
al law enforcement officials confirmed to The
Associated Press that he was William Cleveland
Jr., the lead FBI agent in an investigation that tar
geted an alleged attempt by China to steal neutron
bomb secrets. Cleveland had been having an affair
with Leung since 1988, according to the records.
The court filings contain limited details about
the extent of Leung's activities. But in denying her
bail, U.S. Magistrate Judge Victor B. Kenton said
Leung could be a flight risk because she had access
to about $872,000 in U.S. bank accounts and per
haps millions more in foreign banks.
Leung was arrested April 9 and charged with
unauthorized copying of national defense informa
tion with the intent to injure the .United States or
benefit a foreign nation.
Her lawyers said she was a loyal American who
was given documents by the FBI to pass on to
China as part of an intelligence strategy.
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Texas A&M University
Campus Master Plan
PUBLIC FORUM
*
Presentation/Questions & Answers
Monday, April 21, 2003
3:00-5:00p.m., Rudder Theater
Get a view of how the campus plan is shaping up.
Come tell us what you think.
For additional information, call 845-0555
or visit the website at http://www.tamu.edu/campusplan.
EU-U.S. Research
and Public Policy
Symposium
Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in a
symposium, which will address the linkage between research and
public policy in the EU and the U.S. and offer ideas and suggestions
on building research partnerships with the European Union.
Wednesday, April 23
6 p.m., Panel Discussion:
“The Interface Between Research and
Public Policy in the EU and the U.S.”
Thursday, April 24
8:30 a.m., Panel Discussion:
“Prospects of Research
Collaboration Between the EU and the U.S
pO v>
10 a.m., Roundtable Discussions:
Concurrent discussions among Texas A&M faculty, panelists,
and potential research collaborators from EU institutions.
Panelists:
• Dr. Enric Banda, Secretary-General, European Science Foundation
• Dr. Alessandro Dantiani, Head of Science, Technology and
Education, Delegation of the European Commission
• Dr. Albert H. Teich, Director of Science & Policy Programs,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Dr. Jeanne Hudson, European Union Regional Director, Office of
International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation
• Dr. William Hallman, Associate Director for the Food
Biotechnology Program, Food Policy Institute, Rutgers University
•Dr. Laurent Buisson, Scientific Attache,
Office for Science and Technology, French Embassy to the U.S.
To be held at:
The Leonore and Walter Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
Bush Presidential Library Complex • Texas A&M University
For more information call 862-6700 or visit:
http://international.tamu.edu/eucenter/Events.htm
No registration required • Admission free
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new facility hours or if you have any questions relating to
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