U.S. officials have been aware of North Korea’s efforts to go nuclear for years, but the latest report of a new highly sophisticated uranium enrichment plant is a “provocative act of defiance,” a senior administration official told Fox News.
The “stunning” show of sophistication by the North Koreans — as witnessed by U.S. scientist Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the U.S. Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory who gets regularly glimpses of the North’s secretive nuclear program — has set off alarm bells in Washington.
