North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com)

New submitter ReginaldBryan45 quotes a report from Reuters: North Korea has restarted production of plutonium fuel, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, showing that it plans to pursue its nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAE) said on Monday that it had seen signs based on satellite imagery that show that the secretive country had re-activated the nuclear fuel production reactor at Yongbyon. The analysis by the IAEA pointed to "resumption of the activities of the five megawatt reactor, the expansion of centrifuge-related facility, [and] reprocessing -- these are some of the examples of the areas [of activity indicated at Yongbyon]." U.S. Intelligence tried to infect the Yongbyon site with a variant of the Stuxnet malware last year but ultimately failed. Experts at the U.S.-Korea Institute at John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington predicted last year that the country's nuclear arsenal could grow to as many as 100 bombs within five years, from an estimated 10 to 16. Naturally, this news is a cause for concern as North Korea had four (failed) test launches in the last two months.

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Why does the completely misguided idea of George Soros aiding Hitler arise again and again? Just because he said in an interview, that the strong bond between him and his father during the early 1940ies made this time his most happy time in life, despite Budapest being ruled by the pro-Nazi Horthy regime and the constant danger of deportation? And indeed, George Soros was also lucky as the deportation of the hungarian jews stopped when Miklós Horthy ousted Döme Sztójay and installed Géza Lakatos as the next head of government and the Minister of the Interior Béla Horváth ordering Hungarian gendarmes to use deadly force against any deportation effort, thus the jews in Budapest were not deported, differently than the jews everywhere else in Hungary.

There were even rumours spread George Soros would have been a member in the Hitler Youth, which is completely impossible with George Soros being hungarian, and the Hitler Youth being solely for german (and after the Anschluss also austrian) boys -- no exceptions made, especially not for an hungarian jew living in Budapest. Hungary, despite being dominated by Hitler Germany, was still a country on its own, and german civil organisations like the Hitler Youth or Kraft durch Freude didn't have any sub-organisations in Hungary. It's clear that those rumours are put into the world purposely to discredit George Soros, as they are completely unfounded and don't hold up to reality.