North Korea is producing enough nuclear material a year for up to 20 weapons, South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung said on Wednesday.
The North carried out its first atomic test in 2006 in violation of UN resolutions and is now believed to possess dozens of nuclear warheads.
“Even now, nuclear materials sufficient to produce 10 to 20 nuclear weapons a year are still being produced” in North Korea, Lee told reporters at a new year news conference.
At the same time, the North is continuing to...
Seoul warns North Korea’s nuclear weapons will soon go ‘abroad’, posing ‘global danger’
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Source: scmp.com

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