>North Korea has detonated a nuclear device.
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>"Little can be said with certainty about the nuclear bomb North Korea says it tested, other than one thing: the technology used was almost certainly not '100% indigenous' despite the government's assertion."
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>It is known that North Korea's basic nuclear technology came via the USSR, which helped set up a programme for its Cold War ally as far back as the 1950s. The Soviets built a nuclear complex with a research reactor at Yongbyon in the 1960s and North Korean scientists studied in the USSR.

Well that's going back some! Might as well say that it originated with that humanoid that evolved in Africa that eventually became ancestor to all of us.

The Pakistani guy probably had lots more to do with their success than the USSR. And China too, I would *guess*.

Canada, by the way, had a similar "problem" with India... using spent fuel from a nuclear reactor we sold to them under strict agreement to never use it for weapons.

The "nuclear club" just got bigger - when most of us have hopes to shut that club down entirely some day. Declaring countries members of the "Axis of Evil" seems to goad them towards nuclear weapons. Maybe there's a lesson in there somewhere.



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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6033455.stm