North Korea: Nuclear Bomb Fuel Plants Restarted

North Korea threatened to launch rockets in mid-September and also announced that fuel production plants for an atomic bomb have been restarted. It’s an old pattern, the country acting up to receive aid and attention. The international community has repeatedly and soundly condemned the isolated nation for breaking UN resolutions related to production of weapons of mass destruction. “North Korea has spent decades trying to perfect a multistage, long-range rocket,” notes a report in Al Jazeera. ‘North Korea regularly conducts such test firings of missiles, rockets and artillery, and they are often timed to express the country's dissatisfaction with actions by the United States and South Korea.” Five nations – China, Russia, South Korea, Japan and the United States – have tried dialogue with North Korea, but the process has stalled with parties not meeting in more than five years. – YaleGlobal