It’s really all just a big misunderstanding, you see? It was in the closet and we completely forgot about the secret program we had for enriching uranium for weapons use.
WASHINGTON — North Korea recently turned over to the United States equipment found to be contaminated with traces of highly enriched uranium — HEU — apparently contradicting the country’s stance that it never had such a program, FOX News has confirmed.
The equipment was described as a set of “smelted aluminum tubes” suitable for an HEU centrifuge program, a step necessary to make a nuclear weapon.
“They got some ’splainin’ to do,” one U.S. arms control official said when first told of the discovery about a month ago, he recalled to FOX.
However, North Korea claims the tubes were intended for use in the development of a conventional “artillery” weapon, sources told FOX News.
It should be noted, that these tubes are similar to those ordered by Iraq in 2001, 2002, and 2003. Alhough the Iraqi tubes were deemed more likely to be used as 81mm rocket tubes by the ISG.
