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China-Japan-Koreas
Seoul, Washington Suspect More N. Korean Uranium Sites
2010-12-14
Oh come now, it's not like the Norks would lie to us ...
South Korea and the U.S. are trying to find out if North Korea is clandestinely operating more undisclosed uranium enrichment facilities in addition to a plant at Yongbyon it recently showed to visiting U.S. expert.

"Yongbyon was not included in the list of three or four locations that Seoul and Washington had previously suspected," a South Korean intelligence official said Monday. "We understand that the North has long been conducting a uranium enrichment experiment somewhere else."

South Korean and U.S. officials were surprised to hear about the uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon after Siegfried Hecker's visit early last month. North Korean officials told Hecker the facility is equipped with 2,000 centrifuges. Hecker himself said he saw "hundreds."
Hecker's solution to the problem is that we should address North Korea's 'fundamental insecurity'. Seems to me the Norks are doing that. We should instead be addressing their threat to our friends in the region, and the suffering of the Nork people.
In an article for Foreign Affairs last Friday, he writes, "The centrifuge facility we saw is most likely designed to make reactor, not bomb, fuel, because it would not make sense to construct it in a previously inspected site and show it to foreign visitors. However, it is highly likely that a parallel covert facility capable of [highly enriched uranium] production exists elsewhere in the country."
His article is here.
South Korea and the U.S. apparently have their eye on a research institute in downtown Pyongyang and a missile base in Yongjori, Yanggang Province, as well as a cave complex in Kumchangri 160 km north of Pyongyang, as sites suspected of being secret uranium enrichment facilities.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  ION NEWS KERALA/TOPIX > RUSSIA PUTS FORCES ON ALERT IN FAR EAST OVER KOREAN SITUATION.

and

* XINHUA > [Rodong Shimrun] DPRK MEDIAS ACCUSE JAPAN OF INVOLVEMENT IN FIRST KOREAN WAR. Nippon allegedly provided the Mil Maps used by Gen. Macarthur + UNC to wage war in 1950-53 Korean War, MAPS WHICH HAD KEPT THE TWO KOREAS DIVIDED FOR OVER 50 YEARS.

ARTIC = IFFA NEW = SECOND KOREAN WAR EVER BREAKS OUT, THE DPRK WILL MAKUE SURE THAT JAPAN PAYS THE PRICE FOR ITS MISTAKES IN BOTH THE FIRST KOREAN WAR + PRIOR IN HISTORY.

IIUC, the DPRK just threatened to militarily strike JAPAN, BOTH CONVENTIONAL + NUCLEAR???

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GUAM NEWS > Guam Son USN ADM. PETER GUMATAOTAO, USFK Navy, has abruptly canceled his planned physical appearance + speech at the local University of Guam [UOG]graduation ceremony, BUT MAY "APPEAR" INSTEAD VIA LD VIDEO FROM KOREA???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-12-14 22:52  

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