BREAKING: North Korea ‘WEEKS’ away from obtaining stockpile of PLUTONIUM…(We Know Where This Ends, Right?!)
NORTH Korea is just “weeks” away from assembling a plutonium stockpile, a US intelligence chief has warned.
By TOM BATCHELOR
Express.co.uk
Tue, Feb 9, 2016
The rogue state has restarted a plutonium reactor that could start recovering spent fuel in weeks or months, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said.
Pyongyang announced in 2013 its intention to refurbish and restart nuclear facilities, to include the uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon and its graphite-moderated plutonium production reactor, which was shut down in 2007.
It comes just days after the country successfully fired a rocket into space.
He told the Senate Armed Services Committee: “We assess that North Korea has followed through on its announcement by expanding its Yongbyon enrichment facility and restarting the plutonium production reactor.
“We further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months.”
The intelligence chief added that North Korea continued to pose a cyber threat to the US.
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