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| North Korea Boasts It Has More Bombs |
| 2005-06-09 |
| North Korea boasted it was building more nuclear bombs ahead of the South Korean leader's trip to Washington to discuss deadlocked international efforts to get the communist state to disarm. The North is widely believed to have enough weapons-grade plutonium for a half-dozen nuclear bombs. Asked by ABC News if the North was building more, Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan said: "Yes." "As for specifically how many we have, that is a secret," he said. Kim also implied the North was able to mount nuclear warheads on its missiles. "Our scientists have the knowledge, comparable to other scientists around the world," he said. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun traveled to Washington Thursday on a one-day whirlwind trip to meet President Bush amid signs of strain in the U.S.-South Korean alliance over the nuclear standoff with North Korea. -SNIP- Also, U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Richard Lawless paid a secret visit to Seoul this week and told his South Korean counterparts that Washington might withdraw its troops if the two sides continue to disagree on various bilateral issues, local media reported Thursday. South Korea's Foreign Ministry acknowledged the visit but refused to disclose what was discussed. The reports in the Hankyoreh and Munhwa dailies cited -SNIP- |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 North Korea Boasts It Has More Bombs So do we. But we have many, MANY more of them. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-09 14:22 |
| #2 MORE BOMBS, LESS FOOD! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-06-09 12:35 |
| #1 We got lotsa bombs, we bad, uh-huh! |
| Posted by: Spot 2005-06-09 08:49 |