Vice-President Sai Mauk Kham met the North Korean ambassador to Burma Kim Sok Chol at the Presidential Palace in Naypyidaw on Wednesday. Remaining ties to North Korea have proven to be a sticking point in Thein Sein’s relationship with the West.
Burma continues to enjoy a furtive defence relationship with North Korea by using front companies and false flags to ship military cargo from Pyongyang to Rangoon, according to an investigation by NK News.
Nuclear whistleblower says the government is “doing what needs to be done” by signing an agreement with the UN’s nuclear weapons agency.
Burma has reportedly agreed to give UN weapons inspectors wider access to facilities that could be used to develop nuclear technology, according to the world’s leading nuclear watchdog.
While Thein Sein says he plans to sign the International Atomic Energy Agency Additional Protocol, the government still needs to be transparent and cooperative with the agency
The only way we can trust Burmese government proclamations that it is not developing nuclear weapons is if they open the door to inspections. Failing to do so begs ominous questions
Burma’s ambassador to the IAEA says country is too poor to develop nuclear weapons but admits that atomic research is being carried out
