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Published online 27 June 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.919
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North Korea blows its stack
What does cooling tower's destruction mean for nuclear disarmament?
North Korea demolished the cooling tower of its only nuclear reactor today in a gesture of its willingness to end its plutonium weapons programme. The demolition is one of a series of recent concessions and disclosures by the republic.
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I think NK has scarcity of fuel right now to operate their nuclear plant. But even though if the NK is not criticize by US as "fabled" for now, maybe its better to the NK be part of UN to be a friend of all other nations, in the fact that theirs something wrong about the lost 7 kilograms of plutonium, maybe it was kept by NK for reserved for the future reborn of their plant. And for now if we look other side of this, for example in our envi.. it help saving the earth even a little bit. I hope other nation minimize of their mass production of their nuclear weapon, aside from it power can kill every one.