N. Korea confirms to expand its Nuclear Arsenal

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North Korea says completes nuclear fuel extraction

By Edward Davies and Kim Yeon-hee
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sharply raised the stakes in its nuclear standoff with regional powers on Wednesday, announcing it had finished extracting nuclear fuel rods at its Yongbyon plant and taken steps to expand its atomic arsenal.

It was the first time North Korea had effectively confirmed it had been working on its reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear complex north of the capital Pyongyang. Regional powers, notably South Korea, voiced concern and urged it to return to talks designed to end its nuclear ambitions.

The North said in February it was pulling out of the six-country talks and confirmed for the first time it had nuclear weapons. It has since said it would enhance its deterrent force, and Washington fears Pyongyang could be preparing a nuclear test.

"The relevant field of the DPRK has successfully finished the unloading of 8,000 spent fuel rods from the 5 mw (megawatt) pilot nuclear plant in the shortest period recently," the North's Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a English-language version carried by the official KCNA news agency.

DPRK is short for the state's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Officials in Seoul said in April the North had suspended the operation of its reactor in Yongbyon. Analysts said this would allow it to extract spent fuel rods, which could be turned into weapons-grade plutonium. Outside experts say the North could already have up to eight nuclear weapons.

"The DPRK had already declared in Dec. 2002 that it would re-operate the above-said plant and resume the construction of two other nuclear plants," the North's spokesman added.

The North did not say whether reprocessing of fuel rods -- necessary to make material for nuclear weapons -- had started.

South Korean officials have said they are more concerned about the possibility of reprocessing than a nuclear test.

SEOUL VERY CONCERNED

Pyongyang and Washington signed the Agreed Framework agreement in 1994 in Geneva to mothball the North's plutonium-based nuclear program in return for energy aid, including two proliferation-proof nuclear reactors.

Read the full article here: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...52_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-KOREA-NORTH-DC.XML


What is the most reasonable and logical way to resolve this? What would the US respond to this situation? How would South Korea and Japan respond as well?

I'd like to hear it from you.
 
As yet no one is sure whether North Korea has a nuclear program to expand or not they usually try these muscle flexing moves prior to another round of talks as they think it gives them more "negotiating" power.
 
Guess who provided them the technology to make the N-Bomb?

Everyone should focus their energies on exterminating that one particular nation responsible for supplying Iran and N.Korea the technology needed to make these nuclear weapons.
 
Xion said:
Guess who provided them the technology to make the N-Bomb?

Everyone should focus their energies on exterminating that one particular nation responsible for supplying Iran and N.Korea the technology needed to make these nuclear weapons.

Hmm its more likely to be Pakistan and the venerable Dr Khan providing the data and not Iran.
 
MontyB said:
Xion said:
Guess who provided them the technology to make the N-Bomb?

Everyone should focus their energies on exterminating that one particular nation responsible for supplying Iran and N.Korea the technology needed to make these nuclear weapons.

Hmm its more likely to be Pakistan and the venerable Dr Khan providing the data and not Iran.

Spot On!

Pakistan knows it is a country with meagre natural resources, so if it has to stay in the global arena it has to continuously covertly keep doing something which keeps itself in view of the world powers.

This has been Pakistan's policy since its very inception, its a very effective one.

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That political cartoon has more truth to it than most people would give it credit for.

In less than a month I will undergo intense training so that if the North Koreans do indeed detonate that nuke (the target will be civilian no doubt), they will be on the recieving end of an @$$ kicking of biblical proportions.
 
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