North Korea Pursuing Nuclear Programs

North Korea is still pursuing nuclear programs, defying the US and its allies. South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff told CBS News that North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea on Friday, and that the nation has said it will continue advancing its nuclear programs.
According to Reuters, the country conducted its fourth nuclear test in January, and fired a long-range rocket in February.
“If the United States continues (drills with the South), then we have to make the countermeasures also, as I told you. So, we have to develop and we have to make more deterrence, nuclear deterrence,” So Se Pyong, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations, told the news agency.
News of the latest rocket launch came as a nuclear security summit took place in Washington on April 1. US President Barack Obama has said that the country will up its focus on preventing nuclear materials.
As per another Reuters article, “much of the world’s plutonium and enriched uranium remains vulnerable to theft.” The US and Japan recently successfully removed all highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium fuels from a Japanese research reactor.