Why Leave Ourselves Vulnerable to North Korea’s Nuclear Program?

Conn Carroll / October 08, 2010

The Institute for Science and International Security, founded by former United Nations IAEA nuclear inspector David Albright, released a report today warning that North Korea has “moved beyond laboratory-scale work” and now has the “capability to build” a highly enriched uranium-producing centrifuge plant. The report says North Korea’s centrifuge capabilities makes them “both a horizontal and a vertical proliferation threat.”

The Washington Post further reports that the study “comes as a senior South Korean official warned that North Korea’s nuclear program is ‘evolving even now at a very fast pace,'” and that ” that the danger from the North’s nuclear program is now at an ‘alarming’ level.” (more…)