By Jonathan Thatcher,Reuters
Will Obama do anything to stop this mad man?
North Korea said on Friday that it was in the final stage of enriching uranium,a process that would give it a second path to making a nuclear weapon.
After a series of conciliatory gestures by the North over the past month,the announcement raises the stakes in efforts by the international community to convince the reclusive state to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
"Experimental uranium enrichment has successfully been conducted to enter into completion phase,"the KCNA news agency quoted North Korea’s United Nations delegation as saying in a letter to the head of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC).
The North has already tested two plutonium-based nuclear devices,the one in May triggering tightened international sanctions.