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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview published Tuesday that a Pakistani nuclear expert who ran a key proliferation ring exported "probably a dozen" centrifuges to North Korea to produce nuclear weapons fuel. Musharraf made the remark about Abdul Qadeer Khan to The New York Times just before the United States reopened talks, in Beijing, with North Korea about its nuclear program. "A dozen centrifuges would not be enough to produce a significant amount of bomb-grade uranium. But American officials say they would have enabled North Korea to copy the design and build their own," the Times reported. Musharraf, after two years of questioning Khan, told the US daily it had not been determined if Khan gave "the same bomb design to North Korea and Iran that investigators found in Libya, when it dismantled its uranium program," the report said. "I don't know," Musharraf was was quoted as saying. "Whether he passed these bomb designs to others - there is no such evidence." All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceWar Search SpaceWar Subscribe To SpaceWar Express 
North Korea's Nuclear Odyssey Aided By Soviets, China And Pakistan
Seoul (AFP) Jul 26, 2005North Korea's quest for nuclear weapons dates back to the 1950-53 Korean War and relied on the former Soviet Union, China and more recently a smuggling ring linked to a disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist. |
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