U.S. gears exercises to increasing nuclear threat – World Tribune: Window on the Real World

As N. Korea steps up plutonium production, U.S. gears exercises to increasing nuclear threat

By World Tribune on February 21, 2014 BB NE Asia, Exclusives, Intel Brief, NE Asia, North Korea, Top Stories

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea is set to produce 6-8 kilograms of plutonium that can make one more bomb from the nuclear reactor at the Yongbyon complex it has restarted last year, a government source here said. “Judging from its recent activities, North Korea could extract spent fuel rods as early […]