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Bush's speech on N.Korean nuclear weapons test

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Oct 14,2006



Good morning. Earlier this week, the government of North Korea


proclaimed to the world that it had conducted a successful nuclear


weapons test. In response to North Korea's provocative actions,


America is working with our partners in the region and in the


United Nations Security Council to ensure that there are serious


repercussions for the North Korean regime.


North Korea has been


pursuing nuclear weapons and defying its international commitments


for years. In 1993, North Korea announced that it was withdrawing


from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The United States


negotiated with North Korea and reached a bilateral agreement in


1994: North Korea committed to giving up its pursuit of nuclear


weapons in exchange for help with peaceful nuclear


power.


After I came to


office, we discovered that North Korea had been violating this


agreement for some time by continuing work on a covert nuclear


weapons program. My administration confronted the North Korea


regime with this evidence in 2002, and the North Koreans


subsequently walked away from the 1994 agreement.


So my Administration


decided to take a new approach. We brought together other nations


in the region in an effort to resolve the situation through


multilateral diplomacy. The logic behind this approach is clear:


North Korea's neighbors have the most at stake, and they are North


Korea's principal sources of food, energy, and trade, so it makes


sense to enlist them in the effort to get the North Korean regime


to end its nuclear program.


This diplomatic


effort was called the Six-Party Talks, and these talks included


North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.


In September of last year, these diplomatic efforts resulted in a


wide-ranging Joint Statement that offered a resolution to the


problem and a better life for the North Korean people. In this


Joint Statement, North Korea committed to abandoning all nuclear


weapons and existing nuclear programs. North Korea was offered the


prospect of normalized relations with Japan and the United States,


as well as economic cooperation in energy, trade, and investment.


And the United States affirmed that we have no nuclear weapons on


the Korean Peninsula and no intention to attack or invade North


Korea.


Unfortunately, North


Korea failed to act on its commitment. And with its actions this


week, the North Korean regime has once again broken its word,


provoked an international crisis, and denied its people the


opportunity for a better life. We are working for a resolution to


this crisis. Nations around the world, including our partners in


the Six-Party Talks, agree on the need for a strong United Nations


Security Council resolution that will require North Korea to


dismantle its nuclear programs. This resolution should also specify


measures to prevent North Korea from importing or exporting nuclear


or missile technologies. And it should prevent financial


transactions or asset transfers that would help North Korea develop


its nuclear or missile capabilities.


By passing such a


resolution, we will send a clear message to the North Korean regime


that its actions will not be tolerated. And we will give the


nations with the closest ties to North Korea -- China and South


Korea -- a framework to use their leverage to pressure Pyongyang


and persuade its regime to change course.


As we pursue a


diplomatic solution, we are also reassuring our allies in the


region that America remains committed to their security. We have


strong defense alliances with Japan and South Korea, and the United


States will meet these commitments. And in response to North


Korea's provocation, we will seek to increase our defense


cooperation with our allies, including cooperation on ballistic


missile defense to protect against North Korean aggression, and


cooperation to prevent North Korea from importing or exporting


nuclear or missile technologies.


Our goals remain


clear: peace and security in Northeast Asia, and a nuclear-free


Korean Peninsula. We will do what is necessary to achieve these


goals. We will support our allies in the region, we will work with


the United Nations, and together we will ensure that North Korea


faces real consequences if it continues down its current


path.


Thank you for


listening.





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