N. Korea: Uranium Enrichment Nearly Done

(AP)  North Korea said Friday that it is in the final stages of enriching uraninum, a process that could give the nation a second way to make nuclear bombs.

The official Korean Central News Agency said in a report early Friday that North Korea informed the U.N. Security Council it is forging ahead with its nuclear program in defiance of international calls to abandon its atomic ambitions.

The dispatch said plutonium "is being weaponized," and that uranium enrichment — a program North Korea revealed in recent months — was entering the "completion phase." Experts had long suspected the existence of a hidden uranium enrichment program, which would give the regime a second source of nuclear material.

North Korea called the decision to push ahead with its nuclear programs a reaction to the Security Council's moves to tighten sanctions against the regime for testing a nuclear bomb in May. The report called the resolution a "wanton violation of the DPRK's sovereignty and dignity." DPRK stands for the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea have been negotiating with North Korea for years on dismantling its nuclear program in exchange for aid and other concessions.

North Korea walked away from the talks earlier this year.

[rf35]

Time to nuke that hell-hole off the face of the planet before we find a warhead coming down on the California coast.

[TheMasses2002]

Let's wait until California is nuked - then do something about it.

[erasmus111]

"North Korea walked away from the talks earlier this year."


Yes, and they said they were not going back.

[fariborzzak]

another victory for N.Korea.USA should not provoke N.K.

[slownewsday_5]

Let the UN deal with it, and we'll join in if they deem action necessary. If we keep acting unilaterally, we will have no more allies.

I'm fine with going in if it's really needed, just make sure:
- the UN initiates it
- we don't carry the majority of the expense monetarily nor in lives.

We no longer have the money to play world police all alone.


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[ToolMangler1]

by slownewsday_5 September 3, 2009 8:44 PM EDT
"We no longer have the money to play world police all alone."



That might be because we helped all thc countries to start becombing as rich as we were, (And there is only so much money to go around)

WEELLLL!!!! it sounds good!