[VRWCTexan]

True - and also true that North Korea took their supply of “fuel rods” and converted those into weapons

[gandalftb]

NK reprocessed their own spent plutonium rods, a totally different process, and technically very simple, than reprocessing spent uranium.

[maquiladora]

True - and also true that North Korea took their supply of “fuel rods” and converted those into weapons

North Korea did that to make a plutonium weapon. Its an entirely different process than how nuclear weapons are made from highly enriched uranium.