- (Reuters) -- North Korea has bought a complete nuclear
weapon from either Pakistan or a former Soviet Union state, a South Korean
newspaper has reported.
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- The newspaper Seoul Shinmun quoted an unnamed source
as saying the United States was checking the intelligence.
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- North Korea is believed to have at least one or two nuclear
weapons.
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- US Congressman Curt Weldon said after a visit to North
Korea this month that its second ranked leader had told his delegation
that it possessed nuclear weapons.
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- Pyongyang has previously declared that a nuclear reactor
at Yongbyon, sealed under a 1994 agreement with the United States, has
been restarted. Spent nuclear fuel from that reactor could be converted
to weapons-grade material.
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- North Korea has never officially declared that it possessed
atomic weapons, speaking instead of its nuclear deterrent.
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- US experts who visited the Yongbyon facility said spent
plutonium previously stored there had been removed.
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- North Korea is suspected of running a separate program
based on uranium enrichment technology, assisted by a former top Pakistani
nuclear scientist.
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