N Korea May Add Six to Eight Nuclear Bombs to Arsenal

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

North Korea has said it is "successfully reprocessing" more than 8,000 spent fuel rods - a move that can enable the extraction of plutonium for several nuclear bombs. The procedure could allow North Korea to add, within months, six to eight bombs to the arsenal of one or two it is already believed to have, analysts say.
Officials from the US, Japan, South Korea all said on Friday that they had no information that reprocessing was taking place. Independent confirmation is difficult, however, because North Korea has expelled UN nuclear inspectors.
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