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TexasTowelie

(112,150 posts)
Tue Sep 15, 2015, 02:56 AM Sep 2015

NKorea says it has restarted all nuclear bomb fuel plants

Source: AP

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says it has revamped and restarted all its atomic bomb fuel production plants.

Tuesday's announcement will further worsen ties between Pyongyang and the outside world, and an analyst says it is likely meant to put pressure on Washington to restart talks that could eventually provide the impoverished North with concessions and ease rigid international sanctions.

The declaration in state media follows Pyongyang's warning Monday that it is ready to launch "satellites" aboard long-range rockets that the West considers banned long-range missiles meant to eventually threaten America's mainland with atomic bombs.

The North says the launches would mark the ruling communist party's anniversary next month.


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NKorea says it has restarted all nuclear bomb fuel plants (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2015 OP
They have reason to be worried. Turbineguy Sep 2015 #1
So North Korea wants what Iran got underthematrix Sep 2015 #2
I think Kim Jong Um needs to work on a little more than that before we get to transparency davidpdx Sep 2015 #4
I wondered how long that would take. ileus Sep 2015 #3
No surprise. Looks like they read the Iran deal themselves. 7962 Sep 2015 #5

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
4. I think Kim Jong Um needs to work on a little more than that before we get to transparency
Tue Sep 15, 2015, 07:00 AM
Sep 2015

The chubby little shit needs to learn to play nice.

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
5. No surprise. Looks like they read the Iran deal themselves.
Tue Sep 15, 2015, 08:07 AM
Sep 2015

As the layers of the onion continue to be peeled back

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