N Korea bomb fuel 'imminent'
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He said the United States knew North Korea's nuclear programme included a 25MW reactor, a 200MW reactor under construction, a radio-chemistry laboratory and high-explosive testing facilities.
'Within weeks it will be necessary for North Korea to remove fuel which is now in its 25MW reactor,' Mr Perry said. 'This fuel would provide sufficient plutonium to make four to five nuclear bombs.'
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