North Korea Now Has Enough Plutonium for 13 Bombs - Conservative Failure

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North Korea now has enough plutonium for 13 bombs, and in a couple of years could have enough for 17 to 18 bombs, enough plutonium to start selling the excess. This is a true failure of Republican, conservative foreign policy (not Bush's incompetence).

Gee, I wonder who's in the market for some black-market plutonium?

Hmmm. Can't think of anybody. Can you?

N.Korea may have fuel for 13 nuclear weapons: study
Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:31 PM ET

Albright said "since the start of the Bush Administration and dissolution of the Agreed Framework, North Korea has gone from having enough separated plutonium for perhaps one or two nuclear weapons to enough for between 4 and 13 weapons. By the end of the Bush Administration, North Korea could have enough plutonium for 8 to 17 nuclear weapons."

The Agreed Framework, signed with the United States in 1994, committed Pyongyang to freeze its plutonium program in exchange for two light-water nuclear reactors and supplementary fuel oil supplies. The deal fell apart within two years of Bush taking office.

Key Senate Democrats, concerned along with some Republicans that Bush has ignored the threat posed by North Korea as he grappled with Iraq and Iran, have pressed the administration to declassify its current National Intelligence Estimate on Pyongyang's nuclear and missile capabilities so updated information can be shared with the public.
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if production continued at current levels, North Korea's cash-strapped leaders may decide in a "few years" that they have enough for their own use and can market the excess.


http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-06-27T003114Z_01_N26166867_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-STUDY.xml

Hmmm. Still can't think of anyone who would like some hot plutonium.

Dr. Emmett Brown? No wait, he's a fictional character.

Gimme a sec...

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