The story seems a little far fetched. I'll be interested to see if the American press runs with it.
A man claiming to be a former North Korean army general who fled the Stalinist state late last year has told a Japanese publication Pyongyang secretly imported nuclear bombs from the former Soviet Union and developed dozens of its own. The revelations were among details about North Korea's military command and its leader Kim Jong-Il contained in a 13-page article in the June edition of the respected monthly Japanese magazine Gendai (Modern Times). In an interview with the magazine, the general said the nuclear weapons were imported in 1983 and that North Korea now has four Soviet-made nuclear missiles which, with a range of 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles), could reach the west coast of the United States. "The North Korean army even has tens of nuclear weapons it has developed itself in addition to those made by the former Sovet Union," the general was quoted as saying.
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