North Korea said to show empty nuclear fuel pond

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http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4129289

<snip>EMPTY HOLDING POND

The Americans were the first outsiders allowed in the Yongbyon nuclear complex since U.N. inspectors were expelled a year ago.

The United States has long asserted that Pyongyang possesses one or two nuclear weapons fueled with plutonium.

After ousting U.N. inspectors, the North said it was unfreezing a plutonium reprocessing plant and reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pond -- enough to produce fuel for half a dozen nuclear bombs.

Last week, the North Koreans "showed the (U.S.) delegation the spent fuel pond and it was empty," one source said.

"Obviously, they did not show any rods since they are supposed to have all been reprocessed. What we know, as opposed to what we have been told, is where the rods aren't," he said.

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[crazycat911]

1. Thanks Don

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[0rion]

2. Great job, GW.

A real threat goes unchallenged.

[BrotherBuzz]

4. GWB plays checkers, while the world plays chess...

http://ffip.com/infobriefs030703.htm

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In 2001, the incoming Bush Administration undertook a review of U.S. policy toward Korea, which led to a decision to present a bold initiative to the North, which would reach beyond the nuclear issue to address ballistic missile and conventional military threats as well as such U.S. concerns as human rights in North Korea....
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[Mudcat]

3. The low-tech answer to stealth bombers is...

...imaginary nukes.