By RIA Novosti
Washington : North Korea has broken the pledge it made last year to halt all nuclear activities, the US intelligence service has said.
Mike McConnell, director of National Intelligence, Tuesday told a Senate hearing that Washington was “uncertain about Kim Jong Il’s commitment to full de-nuclearization as he promised in the six-party agreement”.
“While Pyongyang denies a programme of uranium enrichment and they deny their proliferation activities, we believe North Korea continues to engage in both,” he said.
Under an agreement reached in October between the US, Japan, Russia, China and North and South Koreas, Pyongyang was to dismantle its nuclear programmes and provide complete information on nuclear activities by the end of 2007 in exchange for aid. However, Pyongyang missed the deadline, stalling the six-way negotiations.
Since the October deal, South Korea, China and Russia have each supplied North Korea with 50,000 tonnes of fuel oil.
Pyongyang earlier accused the US of failing to strike it off the list of states sponsoring terrorism and lift related trade restrictions, Washington’s obligations under the six-party deal in November 2006.