Pyongyang
North Korea may have secretly sold Libya uranium so that it could build a nuclear bomb, diplomats said this week. Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi voluntarily scrapped his nuclear program in December and handed over to the U.S. 1.7 tons of enriched uranium—enough for one small nuke. United Nations inspectors at first assumed the material came from Pakistan, whose top nuclear scientist had admitted trading nuclear secrets on the black market. But evidence has since pointed to North Korea, bolstering Western fears that the secretive communist nation was raising cash by selling nuclear material. “It’s a definite possibility,” a diplomat said.
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