North Korea Says Uranium Program Near Completion - NYTimes.com

North Korea said Friday it is on the threshold of mastering a new way of building atomic bombs, pressuring the United States to agree to direct negotiations or see the communist regime become a greater nuclear risk.

Pyongyang's claim to have succeeded in experimental uranium enrichment -- an easier way to make nuclear weapons -- raises concerns that North Korea may add uranium-based weapons to enlarge its stockpile of atomic bombs made from plutonium. Full Story »