China recently sold North Korea a large quantity of a chemical that potentially could help engineers make fuel for nuclear weapons, the Washington Times reported today (see GSN, Dec. 9).  China shipped the chemical — tributyl phosphate, which can be used to remove weapon-grade material from spent nuclear fuel — earlier this month, according to U.S. intelligence sources (Bill Gertz, Washington Times, Dec. 17).

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