N Korea 'in final uranium phase'

[jimmy olsen]

Bitches, don't ruin things now that I'm scheduled to go there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8237204.stm

N Korea 'in final uranium phase'
Satellite view of North Korea nuclear plant at Yongbyon (file)
N Korea's known nuclear programme is based around its Yongbyon plant

North Korea has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment, the North's state media are reported as saying by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

"Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage," state media were quoted as saying.

If confirmed, the move would be in defiance of international pressure for the North to abandon its nuclear work.

The UN passed tougher sanctions after a nuclear test by Pyongyang in May.

Both that test and an earlier nuclear test by North Korea in 2006 were understood to have been plutonium-based warheads.

Defiance

The North's KCNA news agency reported that North Korea's delegation at the United Nations had written to the Security Council, saying Pyongyang was now ready "for both sanctions and dialogue".

"Reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponised," the AFP news agency reported the delegation as saying.

"If some permanent members of the UN Security Council wish to put sanctions first before dialogue, we would respond with bolstering our nuclear deterrence first before we meet them in a dialogue," the delegation said.

South Korea's defence minister had warned in June that the North was going ahead with plans to enrich uranium, a step towards making nuclear weapons.

Observers say the US has long suspected the existence of a secret uranium enrichment programme in the North, though experts say it remains little-developed.

In the past few months, North Korea has fired a long-range rocket over Japanese territory and conducted an underground, plutonium-based nuclear test.

Renewed tensions

But more recently, the secretive communist nation has made more conciliatory gestures on the world stage.

Two US reporters and a South Korean worker were released from detention and Pyongyang said it was interested in resuming cross-border tourismand industrial projects with the South.

Less than two weeks ago, the first meeting between officials from the North and South for nearly two years took place unexpectedly in the southern capital, Seoul.

However, the latest communique indicated that the North was unhappy that the UN allowed South Korea to launch a satellite last month, after having condemned its own rocket launch in April, Reuters reported.

Correspondents said Pyongyang's latest remarks appeared to seek once again to ratchet up tensions on the Korean peninsula.

[Razgovory]

Uranium or not I don't think going to North Korea is a wise idea.

[HisMajestyBOB]

The US should stop restraining South Korea and Japan from developing nuclear weapons. Non-proliferation is dead and we should stop pretending otherwise.

Plus, arms races are always exciting. Think of all the shiny new military toys that could be developed!

[derspiess]

Final Uranium Phase is where the questions get tougher and the stakes get higher.  Over $50,000 in cash & prizes is on the line!

[saskganesh]

Canada has been enriching uranium for 50 years. for isotopes.

[Siege]

It is time to invade North Korea.
Their military is going to collapse worst than Saddam's army in 1991.

[DontSayBanana]

It is time to invade North Korea.
Their military is going to collapse worst than Saddam's army in 1991.

Shush. According to Ape, that would be illegal interference. We'll just let them starve their army instead.

[Siege]

America should really be more agressive.

There is a price to pay, but america hegemony is worth it.

Can you imagine a world dominated by anyone other than the clueless yanks?

Hell no.

Fuck no.

[Siege]

It is time to invade North Korea.
Their military is going to collapse worst than Saddam's army in 1991.

Shush. According to Ape, that would be illegal interference. We'll just let them starve their army instead.

They will starve their civilian pop long before straving their army.

[derspiess]

They will starve their civilian pop long before straving their army.

If they had a choice, yeah, that's what they'd do.  But according to Secretary Gates, the army is also starving.

[Siege]

Of course they are.

It is easier to starve an army than to starve the civvies.

However, that's only in democracies.
That's the diference between democracies and dictatorships.
A dictatorship starve their people to feed their army, a democracy starve their army to feed their socialist retirees.

Ok, Im taking shit.

[Monoriu]

If you stay in Seoul you should worry about conventional artillery shells, not nukes.

[Siege]

If you stay in Seoul you should worry about conventional artillery shells, not nukes.

That's how the story goes.

I would take my chances a million times more with conventional artillery than with nukes.

[Queequeg]

It is time to invade North Korea.
Their military is going to collapse worst than Saddam's army in 1991.

Even if they lost the war in a week, they'd still flatten Seoul and launch at Tokyo.  Totally unacceptable.

[Jaron]

It is time to invade North Korea.
Their military is going to collapse worst than Saddam's army in 1991.

Even if they lost the war in a week, they'd still flatten Seoul and launch at Tokyo.  Totally unacceptable.

Is sitting by doing nothing out of fear of losing Tokyo/Seoul acceptable? I'd rather lose one or two cities than give these gooks another bartering chip on the table of world diplomacy.