Posted on 04/25/2007 11:27:05 AM PDT by JZelle
North Korea is continuing to develop nuclear weapons and will conduct additional underground blasts aimed at regional "intimidation," the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said yesterday.
"Unless the six-party talks process prevails, we expect North Korea to continue nuclear weapons research and development to perpetuate its strategy of intimidation," Army Gen. Burwell B. Bell told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
North Korea is continuing to produce plutonium from a reactor at Yongbyon and now has produced up to 110 pounds of the radioactive material, enough for several weapons, Gen. Bell said.
Its plutonium and uranium production "places it on track to become a moderate nuclear power, potentially by the end of the decade," he said.
By developing a small nuclear warhead, North Korea "could eventually field missiles capable of striking targets within the United States homeland with nuclear weapons," Gen. Bell said.
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It’s almost like a racket...everytime NK needs some cash they denonate and wait for the dollars to come raining down...
They’ve played us over and over. You’d think we’d learn.
State Dept never learns or the State Dept has lerned too well...State dept is a cestpool of Lefty idiotcy...not worthy of 1 more dime!
Wow...didn’t see that one coming. But we made an AGREEMENT with them. /s
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