Posted on 02/09/2016 9:19:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
North Korea, which in recent weeks has conducted a nuclear test and fired a long-range rocket in defiance of United Nations sanctions, has also resumed its efforts to produce weapons-grade nuclear material, National Intelligence Director James Clapper told Congress Tuesday.
A North Korean uranium enrichment facility has been expanded, and a plutonium reactor, closed in 2007, is back up and running, Clapper testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee. The reactor could begin to recover plutonium "within a matter of weeks to months," he said.
The dictatorship's growing menace also includes a growth in the "size and sophistication of its ballistic missile forces," and a commitment "to developing a long-range, nuclear-armed missile that is capable of posing a direct threat to the United States," Clapper said.
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Why not?
They can now put it on the 50 yard line in the Super Bowl stadium.
Of course, now that they’ve got a working ICBM.
Probably all part of a side deal they worked out with Clinton and Albright.
Bet they’re in cahoots w/ Iran.
John Kerry, save us!
Do we get all that oil back?
Exactly!!!!! The money is coming from somewhere. Proxy development funded by Iran.
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