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Date: 2009-01-17 (Saturday)
North Korea has four or five nuclear weapons
"All of those I met said that North Korea has already weaponized the 30.8 kg of plutonium listed in its formal declaration and that the weapons cannot be inspected.
"That means North Korea has four or five nuclear weapons, depending on the grade of plutonium, the specific weapons design and desired explosive yield."
-- Selig Harrison, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a policy institute in Washington D.C, told a news conference in the Chinese capital after returning from five days in Pyongyang






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