Ministry of War
North Korean officials told American diplomats at a meeting in Beijing today that they already possessed nuclear weapons and had begun making bomb-grade plutonium, officials of the Bush administration and several informed Asian nations said.(NYTimes.com)

North Korea's representative Li Gun pulled aside U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly on Wednesday and told him "blatantly and boldly" that the country has at least one nuclear weapon, one official said.
Gun asked, "Now what are you going to do about it?" the official said.
Gun said his country would "prove" it has the weapon "soon," implying that North Korea may test a nuclear bomb, though he did not explicitly threaten that, a source said. (CNN)

When I was in DC last semester, everyone was talking about the N. Korean crisis. It was scary talking to a Japanese General who could only describe the DPRK leadership as "unpredicatble, at best". Yea. Is it blackmail? Nukes for oil? Geopolitical maneuver to force reconciliation on their own terms? Threaten Japan against MD? Or are they just feeling neglected, with all of the attention Iraq's been getting?