Report: N.Korea May Have Enough Plutonium for Bomb

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http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3112482

SEOUL (Reuters) - China believes North Korea has processed enough plutonium to complete a nuclear bomb, the Asian Wall Street Journal said Friday.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service said last week North Korea had started reprocessing a small number of the 8,000 fuel rods it has stored at its Yongbyon nuclear complex.

The newspaper quoted diplomats in the Chinese capital and a European official as saying Chinese intelligence services had concluded in recent weeks their communist neighbor is producing enough weapons-grade plutonium and has all the components needed to make nuclear-topped missiles.

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