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North Korea Has Hot Rods: Nukes Are On The Way
John Stith
Staff Writer
2005-05-11
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North Korea announced today it jerked out more fuel rods and it plans to convert them to weapons grade plutonium very soon. This is just the latest in a series of moves by North Korea to advance its nuclear weapons program.
Pyongyang claims it has 8000 fuel rods which is enough to produce multiple nuclear devices. No one knows for sure though since they kicked out nuclear inspectors back in 2002.
North Korea has continued to push the nuclear envelope with the rest of the world as the U.S. continually tries to restart negotiations. North Korea keeps testing though after recently conducting multiple missile tests. This has neighbors like Japan and South Korea a bit jumpy.
The D.P.R.K. keeps taking necessary measures to bolster its nuclear arsenal for the defensive purpose of coping with the prevailing situation," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman told KCNA.
The New York Time had this to say:
"Our sense is there is a great debate going on in Beijing right now, which is intense and divisive," one senior administration official said on Tuesday. "Their game worked fine when the North Koreans were talking" with the other five nations - China, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States. But now, the official noted, "North Korea is saying it is a nuclear weapons state, and they say they want to go into mutual arms reduction talks."
That is a position very different from the one North Korea was taking a year ago, when the discussion was about agreeing to a de-nuclearized Korean Peninsula. The Chinese, the administration official said, "know that just getting them back to the talks isn't good enough now."
Right now, the U.S. just wants to bring North Korea back to the table for the multi nation talks. China and the U.S. both agree they want a nuclear free Korean peninsula. Now if only Kim Jong Il would agree.
About the Author:
John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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