North Korea's nuclear weapons program threat global security and an urgent challenge to the globe

Scoop: Regional Issues Relating to the NPT: "A.Q. Khan's confession of the uranium enrichment assistance his network rendered to North Korea, as well as other reports. In January 2004, North Korea showed a group of U.S. scientists that the spent-fuel storage building at Yongbyon was empty of the almost 8,000 spent fuel rods previously stored there and presented material that it claimed was plutonium separated from those fuel rods. North Korea also stated in February 2005, that it had manufactured nuclear weapons and most recently said that it shut off its five megawatt reactor in order to increase 'its deterrent.' Today, we believe that North Korea's plutonium-based and its uranium-based weapons programs are both still ongoing."