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Byline: Daniel Sneider
While the body count rises in Baghdad and cable television chatters about the hunt for Saddam, the most urgent crisis facing the United States is heading toward a moment of truth.
It's not Iraq. It's North Korea.
North Korea is crossing the red line toward developing nuclear weapons. While intelligence remains murky, there is a growing consensus that the North Koreans have either started reprocessing spent nuclear fuel into plutonium or are about to begin.
By the end of the year, warns former Defense Secretary William Perry, North Korea will probably have enough plutonium to make five or six nuclear warheads and may even have tested a weapon. By next year, it could be in serial production and building five to 10 weapons a year.
...Source: HighBeam Research, It's time to move on North Korea negotiations.(Knight Ridder...