Researcher: North Korea has 'weaponized' plutonium

Source: Associated Press



Updated Sat. Jan. 17 2009 8:23 AM ET

The Associated Press

BEIJING -- North Korea has hardened its stance on disarmament, saying it has "weaponized" plutonium into warheads, but hopes for better ties with U.S. 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 said he met this week with the North's nuclear envoy, Ri Gun, and other officials.

The officials said that "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. He quoted Ri saying, "We are not in a position to say when we will abandon nuclear weapons."

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090117/northkorea_plutonium_090117/20090117/

---

Nice job, Bush. Add this to your list of accomplishments you moronic frat-boy.

"...just like you can deal with all the other FAIL & massively steeenkin messes we republicon homelander cronies are leaving you. Smirk."

- Commander AWOL (R)

What kind of payoffs should we give him THIS time?

so hopefully an announcement of another state funeral will be leaked this year.

:sarcasm:

China would most certainly but a boot in their ass. An unstable Asia is something China is not going to allow, China could very easily crush North Korea and I would bet that they would.

proxy

:banghead: