NEW YORK TIMES: In a sign of increasing concern about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, China published a list on Tuesday that included militarylike hardware and chemical substances that would be banned from export to North Korea for fear they could be used in constructing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
The items in the 236-page document are prohibited from being sent to North Korea because “the dual-use products and technologies delineated in this list have uses in weapons of mass destruction as well as their vehicles,” said a statement by the Ministry of Commerce.
The list was released 10 days after new satellite photographs showed that North Korea may be resuming production of plutonium at its newly reconstructed nuclear reactor at Yongbyon… (more)
