General: North Korea still making nuclear bombs

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North Korea has not stopped producing material needed to make nuclear bombs, according to the top U.S. general on the Korean Peninsula.

“Their production capability is still intact,” Army Gen. Vincent Brooks, the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, told the Aspen Security Forum. “We haven’t seen a complete shutdown of production yet. We have not seen a removal of fuel rods.”

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