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North Korea “bolstering its nuclear deterrent”

North Korea: Pyongyang to boost nuclear arsenal, Spero News, 29 June 2010, North Korea wants to “bolster its nuclear deterrent” against threats from the United States and other nations. Experts believe that it is bluffing because it is decades away from developing an H-bomb. Seoul – North Korea said it would strengthen its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent against hostile nations, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reports in a statement that appears to be a response to US President Barack Obama who at the end of the G20 summit in Toronto said he was “blunt” with Chinese President Hu Jintao about North Korea’s “belligerent behaviour that is unacceptable to the international community”……Pyongyang has developed a nuclear weapons programme using plutonium and uranium. According to a recent announcement, it has also conducted a nuclear fusion reaction, a process that can be used in making a hydrogen bomb.

Experts believe however that the North Korean claim is a bluff; in their view, Pyongyang is decades away from developing and marketing nuclear fusion technology.

North Korea: Pyongyang to boost nuclear arsenal | Spero News

June 30, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | North Korea, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons