North Threatens 'Action' If Its Ships Are Boarded Under New U.N. Resolution To Curb Pyongyang Proliferation North Korea, fresh from launching missiles of varying ranges and testing a nuclear weapon in an underground blast, lurched into newly bellicose threats by vowing to reprocess more plutonium stocks into atomic weapons. Pyongyang also has admitted to a parallel uranium production program that it previously denied. The West knew the uranium program existed because documents that Pyongyang provided to U.N. weapons inspectors were…
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