North Korea takes a confident stance regarding its nuclear weapons program. According to the country’s state media, “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage.” This brings yet another worry to anti-nuclearization critics of the communist regime. Now that ‘North Korea has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment,’ there won’t be stopping the country from using the enriched uranium as fuel for a nuclear bomb.

What North Korea has clearly produced is tension with countries that are directly threatened by its nuclear program. For starters, its continued stubbornness to fulfill such a nuclear program is in defiance of international pressure, and amidst tougher sanctions by the UN.

The delegates from North Korea who communicated with the United Nations Security Council are said to have admitted that ‘reprocessing of spent fuel rods is at its final phase and extracted plutonium is being weaponised.’ They said the country is ready for both sanctions and dialogue, but also declared, “If some permanent members of the UN Security Council wish to put sanctions first before dialogue, we would respond with bolstering our nuclear deterrence first before we meet them in a dialogue.”

North Korea must be completely confident with its burgeoning nuclear arsenal to have issued such ‘threats and provocative acts.’ What is presently clear is that North Korea now admits processing is in its final stage when it completely denied enriching uranium just three months ago.

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Via BBC