NK is going to start reprocessing, and once they start, we can't stop them, and there is a good chance you will be glad you are upwind of NYC. I really see no other solution but to take the reprocessing plant out. Snippet:
March 1, 2003
U.S. Sees Quick Start of North Korea Nuclear Site
By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, The Bush administration's experts on North Korea and intelligence officials have told President Bush that they expect that in the next few weeks the North will turn on the reprocessing plant that can produce weapons-grade plutonium.
The officials say they believe that North Korea might time the move to coincide with the start of any military action against Iraq, a moment when North Korea may think that the United States is distracted.
Spy satellites show a steady stream of activity around the reprocessing plant, and detected a test last month of the power system that would have to be activated before the country's stockpile of 8,000 spent fuel rods could be turned into plutonium, according to several officials with access to the intelligence. A senior official described the activity as "checking off the list, one by one."
"Once they start reprocessing, it's a bomb a month from now until summer," he concluded. After impoverished North Korea has enough plutonium to create what it considers a credible nuclear threat, deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage warned Congress earlier this month, it could sell plutonium to "a nonstate actor or a rogue state."<<<<
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