Plutonium is the issue...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Sept 1, BURT HERMAN - South Korea's top diplomat said Thursday that North Korea's professed desire for a peaceful nuclear program shouldn't become an issue that overshadows disarmament talks.
Right. It should be human rights abuses that dominate the talks.
Meanwhile, a leading North Korea expert said an official there told him the country was researching how to create lightly enriched uranium - which could be used to fuel a reactor for non-weapons use, as opposed to the highly enriched uranium deployed in atomic bombs...
Yea, it is known fact that North Korea has it's own supply of plutonium. Why would you want to enrich uranium? It is hard to do and expensive. Burning coal would be a much more efficient way for North Korea to produce energy.
...Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Washington-based Center for International Policy, said comments last month by Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that his country's former top nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, had passed nuclear technology and designs used to enrich uranium didn't prove American assertions of a highly enriched uranium program -No... Christ! It only "proves" the D.P.R.K's willingness to acquire and proliferate nuclear weapons technology.
which would require hundreds or thousands of centrifuges to be built with specialized parts not easily available. Saddam Hussein was able to acquire them.
``The assumption that they have tried to make or been able to make a weapons-grade uranium program in North Korea is very unfounded at this point,'' he said.
What about the "founded" assumption they have been able to, and HAVE made, weapons grade plutonium?