More Mass Destruction?

North Korea said Friday it is reprocessing more than 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods, which U.S. experts have said will give the communist state enough plutonium to make several atomic bombs. The claim could not be confirmed independently because North Korea expelled U.N. nuclear monitors last year. Washington believes North Korea already has one or two nuclear bombs and can extract enough plutonium from the fuel rods to make six to eight more bombs within months. The development raises the stakes in the North's upcoming talks with the United States over Pyongyang's suspected nuclear weapons programs.