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China-Japan-Koreas
Norks Spent Enough on Nukes to Buy Food for 8 Years
2012-05-04
Chronically hard-up North Korea has spent a total of US$6.58 billion on nuclear weapons development and now has a dozen bombs, including three uranium weapons, a South Korean expert claims. The expert, who requested anonymity, said the money would have been enough to buy 1,940 tons of corn from China or eight year's worth of rations for the North Korean people.
And every time we give them food they spend the savings on more nuclear bombs...
Since the 1980s, North Korea spent $2.01 billion on building nuclear facilities including those in Yongbyon, $310 million on related research, $2.72 billion to operate the facilities, $1.34 billion to develop nuclear weapons, and $200 million on nuclear tests, he claimed.

North Korea says it operates 2,000 uranium-enrichment centrifuges. If that is true, it would be able to produce 40 kg of highly enriched uranium per year. Since it takes 15 to 25 kg of uranium to produce one nuclear weapon, North Korea may have developed one to two uranium bombs a year, the expert explained.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Uh, uh, AS HOMER SIMPSON WOULD SAY -"HMMMMMMMMM, NON-GM/GMO FREE RANGE GRASS"???

gut nuthin.

* ION CORYE, TOPIX > NORTH KOREA WID A [Nuclear = NucWeap] ARSENAL CAPABLE OF DESTROYING SIX CITIES.

Yokay, I'll bite, as per the MSM-Net shouldn't that number actually be 6-12 Cities???

"IRAN FACTOR" notwithstanding.

* SAME > NORTH KOREA SAYS MORE SATELLITES ["Space Rocket" launches] WILL BE FORTHCOMING.

* NEWS KERALA > [POTUS Bammer + PM Noda] US, JAPAN SAY NORTH KOREA'S "OLD PATTERN OF [military] PROVOCATIONS" IS OVER.

Not clear iff this is good news, given Rising China's growing MilPol agressiveness throughout the "First Island Chain".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-05-04 23:01  

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