South Korea claims North has fixed nuke rods

SOUTH KOREA’S intelligence agency believes North Korea has reprocessed a small number of spent fuel rods in a step that could yield nuclear weapons materials.

The agency’s report marked the first time South Korea has confirmed the communist North has begun reprocessing its pool of 8,000 nuclear spent fuel rods.

If reprocessed, experts say, those rods can yield enough plutonium for several nuclear bombs within months.