Researcher: North Korea has `weaponized' plutonium

Researcher: North Korea has `weaponized' plutonium

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BEIJING — North Korea has hardened its stance on disarmament, saying it has "weaponized" plutonium into warheads, but hopes for better ties with President-elect Barack Obama, a U.S. researcher who visited the North said Saturday.

Officials say the weapons cannot be inspected and Pyongyang might keep them even if it normalizes relations with Washington, said Selig Harrison, director of the Washington-based Center for International Policy's Asia program.

Harrison, who has visited the North 11 times since 1972, said he met this week with the North's nuclear envoy, Ri Gun, and other officials.

The officials said "North Korea is now a nuclear weapons state and will not commit itself now on when it will give it up as a result of denuclearization negotiations," Harrison told reporters in Beijing. "We are not in a position to say when we will abandon nuclear weapons," he quoted Ri as saying.

Harrison said the North's "much, much harder line" might be due to the rise of military hard-liners after leader Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke.

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Lovely.

Actually I thought that since they already had nuclear weapons they had weaponized plutonium.

Be that as it may what concerns me more than anything is not their using nuclear weapons but them selling both nuclear technology and weapons to the highest bidders to raise money for their cash striken state.

If they do that there is no telling whose hands they (the weapons) would fall into.

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you know that most of those nukes will endup in usa lol bom boom