Reply #10: Is it NORKS or NOKOs?

[leveymg]

I think they're pissed because of western intelligence reports that more of their centrifuges were found.

But, the problem with those reports that I've seen is that NK (I'll be ecumenical in my nomenclature) traditionally builds their bombs from plutonium harvested from a reactor, not highly enriched uranium spun by centrifuges. The AQ Khan network sold a bunch of primative, inefficient P-1 and P-2 machines to NoKo, Libya, Iran, and Iraq in the 1980s and 1990s, but that may have just slowed everyone down and diverted resources away from the NORK plutonium program.

Anyone know anything about this?