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The Clinton Peace and Hope and Change mission to North Korea is paying big dividends -

chinadaily.com.cn

SEOUL: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Friday that it was in the final stage of enriching uranium, a process that would give it a second path to making a nuclear weapon.

After a series of conciliatory gestures by the DPRK over the past month, the announcement raises the stakes in efforts by the international community to convince the state to give up its nuclear weapons programme.

“Experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted to enter into completion phase,” the KCNA news agency quoted DPRK’s United Nations delegation as saying in a letter to the head of the UN Security Council (UNSC).

The DPRK has already tested two plutonium-based nuclear devices, the one in May triggering tightened international sanctions.

The Unites States has long suspected that the DPRK has a secret programme to enrich uranium for weapons. Experts have said it has not developed anything near a full scale enrichment programme.

The DPRK said its latest moves were in response to tighter sanctions.

So here is a question for resident physician/philosophers - if your wrists are slit and your pinky is cut off, will your fist unclench?