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US intelligence says that Korea "might" have a secret nuclear plant
 US intelligence sources claimed today that North Korea might have a secret nuclear reactor.
According to evidence found by US intelligence agencies, North Korea might have secretly built a second nuclear reprocessing plant to produce weapons-grade plutonium.
The installation might possibly, they say, be hidden somewhere, like inside a mountain.
US ally Tony Blair, who was in South Korea yesterday on the second leg of an Asian tour, told reporters "Whether or not the claims that have weapons grade material turn out to be true, or whether they don't, we obviously need to act on it as soon as possible, before either theory is proved or disproved... If not North Korea might turn out to be a real threat and danger."
He said that there would probably would be no need for military action, but said an "awful lot of pressure" could be put on Pyongyang to try to get it to comply with its international obligations.
However US sources said that PM Blair was probably wrong. William Perry, the former US defence secretary said that the situation was drifting towards war, possibly before the end of the year.
However US intelligence reports earlier this week state that Korea "probably hasn't" produced the weapons grade material that US intelligence sources claim it has produced.
Other recent intelligence reports claim that there is a chance that Saddam Husseins sons may have been killed in a recent mortar attack by US forces, that Iraq probably did have weapons of mass destruction, and that they were possibly destroyed just before the war, that Iran might be producing weapon grade material, that Syria possibly already has and that pigs might fly.
See also : WMD ‘Imaginary’ - Blair.
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