North Korea ‘has enough plutonium for six nuclear bombs’

NORTH KOREA may have enough weapons-grade plutonium to make up to half a dozen nuclear bombs, the head of the UN atomic watchdog agency said yesterday in another warning about the reclusive regime’s secretive nuclear programme.

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed El Baradei told CNN that Pyongyang has the nuclear infrastructure to convert the material into atomic weapons.

“We knew they had the plutonium that could be converted into five or six North Korea weapons,” Mr El Baradei said.