CIA Says N.Korea Already Has 'Validated' Nuke

CIA Says N.Korea Already Has 'Validated' Nuke
Fri November 7, 2003 08:07 PM ET

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea appears to have built one or two nuclear weapons it could be confident would work even without a test nuclear blast, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has told Congress.

"We assess that North Korea has produced one or two simple fission-type nuclear weapons and has validated the designs without conducting yield-producing nuclear tests," the CIA said in written replies to questions from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

The CIA's Aug. 18 statement was made public recently by the Federation of American Scientists on its Web site (www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_hr/021103qfr-cia.pdf).

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the U-235 gun, was used on Japan without prior testing.

And that was 50 years ago.

Typical George W. Bush schoolyard bully diplomacy at work.

He picks fights with the weak, but only if they have something he wants. He hides under mommy's skirt if somebody trys to pick a fight with him.

Now everybody wants their own bombs. Sorta like teenage gangsters in the 'hood want their own guns.

Gee George, I thought the "adults" were gonna be in charge...