The North was expected to suspend uranium enrichment the main hurdle to restarting the six-party talks.
Only this weekend David Miliband condemned Iran's latest plan to build more uranium enrichment plants.
It also condemns all of North Korea's ongoing nuclear activities, including its uranium enrichment.
On Monday, Channel 2 reported that Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility was also infected by Stuxnet.
But Iran's insistence on forging ahead with uranium enrichment left potential allies without options.
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Uranium enrichment is the right of any country who is a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The project is aimed at encouraging countries like Iran not to pursue their own uranium enrichment technologies.
Perhaps to strengthen Obama's hand as he rallies the civilized world to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program.
If the Turkish-Brazilian uranium enrichment deal with Iran goes through, the timeline will be cut by half.
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The new element in the announcement is North Korea's acknowledgement that the uranium enrichment is for weapons use.
Iran has denied foreign media reports of a major explosion at one of its underground uranium enrichment sites.
Last month, the IAEA noted what it called a sharp and troubling increase in Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities.
Security Council resolutions that call for the end of uranium enrichment, the closing of Fordo, the enrichment facility.
At this rate of uranium enrichment, Iran will be capable of producing an atomic bomb in a year.
They are also calling for Iran to stop 20% uranium enrichment and to limit its enrichment to below 5%.
It has offered in rather confused form to suspend uranium enrichment during negotiations.
The UN Security Council has already passed four rounds of sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment.
Even while Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was boasting about Iran's uranium enrichment program.
It also agreed to suspend uranium enrichment and to allow back UN weapons inspectors as part of the deal.
The second point to bear in mind is that a suspension of uranium enrichment will cost the Islamic Republic nothing.
Without going into entirely boring detail, the Iranian plan for uranium enrichment depended on a series of high speed centrifuges.
The mullahs have already responded by saying they will not abandon their uranium enrichment program, seed corn for nuclear weaponry.
Unless the regime suspends its uranium enrichment efforts, we will blockade the country, cutting off its desperately needed imports of gasoline.
Iran's plans to upgrade its uranium enrichment centrifuges would be a "further escalation" in the nuclear stand-off, the US has warned.
But since the delegation last met, Iran's uranium enrichment program has expanded in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Their uranium enrichment facility at Natanz is now operating some 5, 000 centrifuges, with another 2, 400 centrifuges about to go on line.
The U.S. and five other world powers offered Iran a package of incentives if it would freeze uranium enrichment by last Saturday.
The Iranian atomic energy chief has announced an upgrade to uranium enrichment machines in a move the US has called an "escalation".
Pyongyang dishonored the freeze, contained in the much-derided Agreed Framework, by, among other things, working on its uranium enrichment program in secret.
Security Council deadline of Aug. 31 to end its uranium enrichment program.
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