The Washington Post
North Korea announced early Friday that it is in the "final stage" of enriching uranium, a process that, if completed, would give it a second means of making a nuclear bomb.
In rejection of U.N. efforts to sanction its nuclear weapons program, the North's official Korean Central News Agency declared, "We've successfully done the experiment for enrichment of uranium and it has entered the final stage."
North Korea has twice tested nuclear devices that use plutonium, which is manufactured by a chemical process in a nuclear reactor. The last test, in late May, triggered international outrage and tough new U.N. sanctions.
As part of those sanctions, a North Korean arms shipment was seized last month off the United Arab Emirates. North Korea said Friday that it "will neither accept nor be binded" by the sanctions. Enriched uranium offers a different way to make bombs. It uses centrifuges to spin hot uranium gas into weapons-grade fuel. North Korea announced in June -- after nearly seven years of denial -- that it had a program for making nuclear weapons from enriched uranium. (Read more...)
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