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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (52766)	10/17/2002 6:48:20 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

Pyongyang "defiantly and arrogantly" says arms deal "nullified" US details N Korea nuke threat From correspondents in Washington October 18, 2002 THE United States has said North Korea has up to two plutonium-based nuclear bombs. The devices would predate the uranium-enriched weapons program it owned up to when confronted by a US official early this month. "It is our assessment that North Korea has reprocessed before 1994 sufficient plutonium for one or two nuclear weapons," a US official said. When pressed, he said North Korea had two bombs. Minutes earlier, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he believed that North Korea had a small stock of nuclear weapons. North Korean officials admitted they had continued to develop nuclear weapons, in violation of a 1994 agreement, in talks earlier this month with senior State Department official James Kelly. Pyongyang considered the deal - known as the Agreed Framework, under which it agreed to freeze its nuclear program - "nullified", State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Kelly presented North Korean officials with evidence of the enriched uranium nuclear program during his October 3-5 visit.