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North Korea’s secrecy leaves everyone in the dark about its nuclear program

A Secretive Country Gives Experts Few Clues to Judge Its Nuclear Program NYT, By WILLIAM J. BROAD: February 12, 2013 As scientists and world leaders scrambled Tuesday to judge the importance of North Korea’s claim that it had detonated a third nuclear bomb, the main thing that quickly became evident is how little is known about the country’s increasingly advanced atomic and missile programs…………It also remains unclear whether the North used plutonium or enriched uranium to fuel the bomb. ….. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/world/asia/despite-claims-of-third-blast-north-korean-nuclear-program-remains-a-mystery.html?_r=0

February 15, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general