North Korea today ordered the expulsion of UN nuclear inspectors and announced it will reactivate a laboratory that the United States claims can produce enough weapons-grade plutonium for several atomic bombs. Despite IAEA warnings, the North removed monitoring seals and surveillance cameras from the nuclear complex at Yongbyon earlier this week. Pyongyang said it was reopening the lab to give "safe storage" to spent fuel rods that will come from the reactor it plans to restart. The lab can be used to extract weapons grade plutonium from spent fuel rods. North Korea already has 8,000 spent fuel rods in storage that experts say could yield four or five nuclear weapons within months.
Except for Finnish commies, I don't think anybody's buying any of this... |