Despite yesterday’s news about the discovery of weapons-grade uranium traces in Iran, the IAEA is more concerned about North Korea. Perhaps that’s because Pyongyang’s passed the decade-mark on the UN ignoring the nuclear evidence?

MARK GWOZDECKY, IAEA SPOKESMAN (VIENNA): We’re worried about a number of countries in the world today, but certainly North Korea is a very, very big threat, and we say that because they’ve demonstrated that they have the — they have a quantity of plutonium.

We were the first to indicate, in the early ’90s, that they had not declared to us a certain quantity of plutonium.

That’s a big ingredient for building a nuclear weapon.

Over ten years of ineffective sanctions and diplomatic hand-slapping. UN inspectors that have been kicked out of the country. A belated recognition by the UN that a nut job dictator may be trying to blackmail the world with WMDs he’s failed to declare for years now.

Gosh. Doesn’t that sound familiar?

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