N. Korea says it has reached the final phase of uranium enrichment

SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Friday that it has entered a final
phase of uranium enrichment, and is also building more nuclear weapons with spent
fuel rods extracted from its only operating plutonium-producing reactor.
"We've successfully done the experiment for enrichment of uranium and it has
entered the final stage," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.
"We are also finalizing the reprocessing of the spent fuel rods and the plutonium
extracted (from the reactor) are being weaponized."
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