N. Korea More Nukes
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N. Korea Confirms Shutting down Reactor for Nukes
North Korea has confirmed it shut down a nuclear reactor and plans to reprocess the spent fuel rods for nuclear warheads, USA Today reported Tuesday. The daily quoted the country?s deputy ambassador to the UN Han Sang-ryol, as saying Pyongyang was taking the step to ?increase its deterrent against a possible U.S. attack.?
\\"The ball is in the U.S. court,\\" Han said according to the paper?s online edition. \\"We asked the United States to change its hostile policy. Then we can believe the United States and enter the disarmament process. If the U.S. policy is normal and friendly, (North Korea) will feel safe.\\"
He said harsh rhetoric from Washington was making it difficult for his country to go back to six-party nuclear disarmament talks. Pyongyang is furious that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has labeled it an ?outpost of tyranny.?
?If North Korea carries out the threat, it would mark the second time in two years that it has removed fuel rods from its reactor in Yongbyon to make bomb material,? the newspaper said.
?The CIA has estimated it possesses from two to eight? nuclear weapons, the paper said, adding that reprocessing the reactor fuel could give it an additional six.
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