North Korea openly threatened to push forward with a uranium-centered nuclear weapons production program, and with further intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests, the International Herald Tribune reported. That outburst came after North Korea for years had denied it was producing uranium-based fissile material. Pyongyang previously had admitted only to a plutonium-based weapons program. This latest bellicose blast from the North came after it earlier had threatened to begin rebuilding a partially dismantled reactor at Yongbyon where plutonium had been produced…
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