S. Korea Revises Defense Law To Authorize *PRE-EMPTIVE ATTACK* on N. Korea (Video) Breaking

NNN TV News in Japan (link to video) ^ | 26 June 2009 | AmericanInTokyo

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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/06/27/2009062700229.html

“G8 Ministers Condemn Actions of Iran, N.Korea”
(June 27, 2009)

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NEW THREAD:

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Uranium gives NKorea second way to make bombs
AP via Breitbart ^ | June 28, 2009 | KWANG-TAE KIM
Posted on June 28, 2009 10:47:01 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar

After repudiating negotiations on dismantling its plutonium-based nuclear program, North Korea admitted this month to having an even more worrying way to make bombs.

Following nearly seven years of adamant denials, North Korea announced it can enrich uranium—a simpler method of building nuclear weapons than reprocessing plutonium. Uranium can be enriched in relatively inconspicuous factories that can better evade spy-satellite detection, and uranium bombs may work without test explosions.

The admission—made in a threatening response to a June 12 U.N. Security Council resolution punishing Pyongyang for an underground plutonium bomb test last month—poses a new challenge to the U.S., China, South Korea, Russia and Japan as they seek to stem the reclusive country’s atomic ambitions.

Since 2003, they have focused on persuading the North to disable a nuclear reactor north of Pyongyang, where the communist regime had been laboriously extracting plutonium, not a naturally occurring material, from spent fuel rods.

Natural uranium, on the other hand, is readily available. North Korea has said it has an estimated 26 million tons of natural uranium deposits, of which about four million tons can be economically extracted. The Washington-based Federation of American Scientists also said an estimated 4 million tons is high-quality uranium ore.

That doesn’t mean North Korea can make a uranium bomb overnight. The uranium must be highly enriched first, and making enough for a bomb requires operating 1,000 to 3,000 centrifuges for a year, said Lee Choon-geun, an expert at South Korea’s state-funded Science and Technology Policy Institute.

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