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North Korea claims to have weaponized plutonium

Source: Disinfo.com

Beijing : China | 10 months ago

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Senior North Korean officials say the communist regime has "weaponized" its stockpile of plutonium, according to a U.S. scholar, in a move suggesting that North Korea may have significantly hardened its stance on nuclear negotiations. Selig Harrison, one of the few U.S. scholars granted access...

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