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The United States has clear evidence North Korea exported nuclear material to Libya through a Pakistani broker, chief U.S. negotiator to the six-party talks Christopher Hill said yesterday. "We do have evidence that what arrived in Libya was actually of North Korean origin," Hill said during a 90-minute panel discussion with the Civil Network for a Peaceful Korea, "We believe it was brokered through Pakistan with the (North Korean) knowledge that it would end up in Libya. He answered a barrage of questions from the panel of three civic activist groups on a recent U.S. media report which claimed Pyongyang...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Raising new alarms about Iran, the Bush administration concluded Wednesday that the country is getting ready to produce enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons. Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton, the administration's point man on nuclear proliferation threats, said "we view with great concern" revelations in a classified report circulated among member governments by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran is about to convert 37 tons of "yellowcake" uranium into uranium hexafluoride gas. Bolton said that move combined with Iran's recent announcement that it intends to test its gas centrifuges "are further strong evidence...