Pyongyang
The Pakistani scientist who sold nuclear technology to several rogue states told interrogators this week that he saw three nuclear devices in North Korea. Abdul Qadeer Khan said that, on a trip to North Korea five years ago, he was taken to a secret underground plant, where he saw the bombs. It was the first time a foreigner had confirmed the existence of an assembled nuclear device. North Korea is thought to be currently reprocessing fuel to make more bombs, a development that could be even more ominous than this week’s revelation. “There’s a difference between two or three and eight,” Sandy Berger, national security advisor under President Clinton, told The New York Times, “and it’s called the market in weapons for global terrorists.”
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