November 19, 2010

CISAC team discovers new North Korean uranium enrichment facility

CISAC's Siegfried Hecker, Robert Carlin, and John Lewis recently returned from North Korea, where it was revealed to them that Pyongyang was working on a new light-water reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear center, as well as a small, ultra-modern, industrial-scale uranium enrichment facility. "How the United States and its partners respond to these developments may help to shape whether Pyongyang will rely more on the bomb or begin a shift toward nuclear electricity," Hecker wrote in a report on their findings.

• » North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Complex: A presentation by Siegfried S. Hecker at the Korea Economic Institute
  
• » North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Complex: A Report by Siegfried S. Hecker
• » Robert Carlin and John W. Lewis in the Washington Post: "Review U.S. Policy Toward North Korea" (Nov. 22, 2010)