UN: N Korea could have 6 nukes
08/05/2005 18:37  - (SA)  

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Washington - The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that North Korea has up to six nuclear weapons, the UN nuclear watchdog's chief said on Sunday.

Interviewed on CNN if it was the IAEA's assessment that the North Koreans already have as many as six nuclear bombs, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said: "I think that would be close to our estimation."

"We knew they had the plutonium," he said.

"We know that they had the industrial infrastructure to weaponise this plutonium. We know - we have read also that they have the delivery system."

According to US intelligence reports, Pyongyang is believed to have one or two crude nuclear bombs.

- AFP

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