SATELLITES SEE ACTIVITY AT N. KOREAN NUCLEAR SITE (WEAPONS GRADE PLUTONIUM BY MARCH)

NY Times ^ | Friday, January 31, 2003 | David E. Sanger

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American Spy Satellites over North Korea have detected what appear to be trucks moving the country's stockpile of 8,000 nuclear fuel rods out of storage, prompting fears within the Bush administration that North Korea is preparing to produce roughly a half dozen nuclear weapons, American officials said today.

Throughout January, intelligence analyists have seen extensive activity at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, with some trucks pulling up to the building housing the storage pond.

While the satellites could not see exactly what was being put into the trucks, analysts concluded that it was likely the workers were transporting the rods to another site, or to move them to a reprocessing plant to convert them into bomb grade plutonium.

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Perhaps the N. Koreans are looking to strike while we are preoccupied?

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Now we know the reason for the disclosure of the possible Japanese nuclear program the other day...

Japan 'loses' 206kg of plutonium
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/831345/posts

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