North Korea an 'imminent threat'

North Korea poses more of a nuclear threat than Iran, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told CNN, because the country already has the nuclear material that would go into a weapon. "We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb," Mohammed ElBaradei told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday. "We have not seen any such material in Iran." North Korea, he said, represents an "imminent threat or an imminent danger," while Iran is merely suspected of having a nuclear program. "That is why, when people sometimes grumble about our slow pace in Iran, I would like them to compare that situation with North Korea," he said. "In Iran we are active, we are generating information and we know what's going on, more or less. In Korea, it is an absolutely black hole." [more]