North Korea may already have 20 nuclear warheads and up to 20 more by next year, according to estimates by China's nuclear experts, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.| How many are stored in Iran, Malaysia and Pakistain? |
Chinese experts presented their findings at a closed-door meeting with U.S. nuclear specialists in February. Siegfried Hecker, a nuclear physicist from Stanford University who attended the meeting, said "Chinese experts now believe North Korea has a greater domestic capacity to enrich uranium than previously thought."
The U.S. paper said China is paying more attention to the North's nuclear development as the U.S. has failed to respond properly to the North Korean nuclear issue due to its concentration on nuclear talks with Iran.
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