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]
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