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Yongbyon Declassified: At Ground Zero

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게재일자 2018년 05월 14일
기관 CSIS
저자 Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Beyond Parallel
키워드 #NUCLEAR TEST   # SATELLITE IMAGERY   # SIX PARTY TALKS   # YONGBYON DECLASSIFIED
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주요내용 The exact origins of North Korea’s nuclear program are still shrouded in mystery despite being the object of study for over twenty-five years. Contrary to common perception, North Korea started developing one of its key nuclear facilities, the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center, in the early 1960’s not the late 1980’s. This research center would later become the site of North Korea’s first modified 4-megawatt thermal (MWt) IRT-2000 reactor, from which the North Koreans later admitted to separating a small amount of plutonium in 1975. 1 It also later became the location for North Korea’s 5 megawatt (5MWe) and 50 megawatt (50MWe) reactors. The 5MWe reactor and plutonium production at Yongbyon were a central part of negotiations in both the 1994 Geneva Agreed Framework and the Six-Party Talks.