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...three-day talks, Li, true to his script, informed Kelly that North Korea indeed possesses nuclear weapons, might well choose to export or "demonstrate" them and would base its decision on whether Washington meets a slew of demands, including lots more aid. Li added that the plutonium from the Yongbyon reactor?material that $400 million in U.S. heavy-fuel-oil payments was meant to keep "frozen"?was now almost completely reprocessed. North Korea then called off the third day of talks, explaining that the Americans "had nothing...
...seemed, the threat posed by unstable dictator Kim Jong Il holding his finger over the button was about to be defused. This week, however, North Korea reminded the world how perilous Dear Leader dealings were by announcing it had begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium...
...time that the U.S. was confronting North Korea with evidence that it had restarted its nuclear weapons program, precipitating the current crisis. There was one final hiccup late last week, when Pyongyang appeared to claim it had almost finished reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods - which would produce enough plutonium for up to half a dozen nuclear bombs - leaving officials scrambling to figure out if the North was intent on building a nuclear arsenal or just trying to build leverage ahead of the talks. Killer's Wrist Slapped THE NETHERLANDS Supporters of slain politician Pim Fortuyn expressed outrage...
...tattoo on his back that elegizes his pet dog. Here he plays Tony Fate, a gentleman thief whose latest heist, a handful of black diamonds, gets him in trouble with some mean malefactors (Hawaii-born Mark Dacascos and Kelly Hu). The black diamonds turn out to be plutonium pellets that could Destroy the World. DMX has charisma enough for the job, performing tough scenes and teary ones with equal facility...
...certainly; rolling up al-Qaeda, probably; perhaps with Turkey and at the Security Council as well. But he has been extremely careless in the process, and there are bound to be consequences. The consequences in postwar Iraq are unknowable. The consequences in North Korea - the production and sale of plutonium, or a military effort to thwart such sales - could be cataclysmic. The transatlantic consequences may become more apparent after the war is over: the French, no doubt, have enjoyed their leading role in the current melodrama and may seek to make it permanent. They may attempt to organize...