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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Assessing North Korea's uranium enrichment capabilities By Hui Zhang

Assessing North Korea's uranium enrichment capabilities
By Hui Zhang
| 18 June 2009
Article Highlights

* Last weekend, Pyongyang threatened to begin enriching uranium in an effort to expand its nuclear weapons program.
* While much is known about North Korea's plutonium production program, far less is understood about what enrichment capabilities Pyongyang currently possesses.
* That said, all of the publicly known evidence seems to indicate that North Korea currently has a very limited capacity for enrichment.

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