Seoul: North Korea has plutonium for two nuclear weapons
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Monday, March 26, 2001
TOKYO Ñ North Korea has the capability to produce up to two nuclear
bombs.
A South Korean government institute said Pyongyang has enough plutonium
to
make one or two nuclear weapons. The report by the Education Center of
Unification said the plutonium was extracted from North Korean reactors.
Pyongyang obtained reactors designed by the former Soviet Union and the
report said 3,000 nuclear specialists are in North Korea. The experts were
trained
by China and Russia in a program that began more than 30 years ago.
Pyongyang is expected to receive two light-water reactors in a $4.6
billion
project led by a Western and Asian consortium. The reactors are to come in
exchange
for a 1994 pledge by North Korea to suspend its nuclear weapons program.
"Verification on whether the North has fully given up its suspected
nuclear weapons program should be pushed," the center said.
Monday, March 26, 2001
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