Musharraf confirms Khan provided centrifuges, designs to North K

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Islamabad on Aug. 23. He has confirmed that Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan provided centrifuge machines and their designs to North Korea but played down the role these transfers have played in the North Korean bid to acquire a nuclear weapons capability. (Kyodo)

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