Thursday, March 22, 2012

Does North Korea Have More Nuclear Facilities?

Satellite images obtained by a nuclear security think tank in 2010 show a uranium enrichment facility in North Korea

Scientist: North Korea Likely Has More Nuclear Facilities -- CNN

(CNN) -- North Korea has more uranium enrichment facilities than it has admitted to previously, a U.S. scientist charged Thursday.

Prof. Siegfried Hecker of Stanford University told CNN his conclusion is based on his study of recent satellite images and other research, and what he saw when he was invited by North Korea to visit its Yongbyon nuclear power plant in 2010 to see its secret uranium enrichment program.

"When I saw the sophistication and scale of that uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon in a building that I had been in before that housed something totally different, it was clear that they started the program long before the time that they had said, which was April 2009. So my conclusion was, they had to have another site someplace else," said Hecker.

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My Comment: I do not know the answer .... but it would not surprise me if they do have a facility or two somewhere else.

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