N Korea Nuclear Threat "Serious"

World | July 18, 2003, Friday // 00:00

North Korea poses the "most immediate and most serious threat" to efforts to control the world's nuclear weapons, the UN's atomic watchdog has warned. Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he was concerned about reports that Pyongyang is processing fuel rods that used to be under his agency's safeguards. ElBaradei's remarks follow North Korea's claim last week that it has produced enough plutonium to start making nuclear bombs.

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