This still from a CNN broadcast shows North Korea's Unha-3 rocket, as the country officials prepared for an attempted satellite launch in April 2012.
North Korea Needs More Tests For Nuclear Missile: U.S. Expert -- Reuters
(Reuters) - North Korea would need to carry out at least one more atomic test in order to develop a nuclear missile, a prominent U.S. scientist who has often visited the isolated Asian state said on Thursday.
Stanford University's Siegfried Hecker, who in 2010 was shown a previously undetected uranium enrichment facility in North Korea, said he believed it might be able to conduct its fourth such explosion soon, in weeks or months.
The North has threatened nuclear attacks on the United States, South Korea and Japan after new U.N. sanctions were imposed in response to its latest nuclear arms test in February.
"My view is that they need at least one more nuclear test and most likely several more nuclear tests," said Hecker, who is believed to have been the last Westerner to visit North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex.
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My Comment: Only one more test!!!! I call this a clear indication on how much North Korea has advanced in their nuclear program. The Economist has a good analysis on why North Korea's nuclear program is "scary. The best part of that report is the last sentence ....
.... The scariest thing about North Korea's nukes is that it no longer considers them as bargaining chips, but as weapons.
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