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Today's YOMIURI SHIMBUN (Conservative daily here in Tokyo), also has further details today on this:

"According to the copy of the report obtained by The Yomiuri Shimbun, the IAEA condemned North Korea as the circumstances violate U.N. Security Council resolutions that require the nation’s abandonment of nuclear and missile programs. The report gave a detailed description of the reality of the nation’s nuclear development based on satellite observations and information analyses over the past year.

A graphite-moderated reactor is a facility to produce weapons-grade plutonium by burning uranium fuel. After burning uranium fuel — which takes years — spent fuel is removed from the reactor, from which plutonium may be extracted at a reprocessing plant.

According to the report, discharge of vapor — a sign of the reactor operating — was confirmed at the Yongbyon graphite-moderated reactor, as well as draining of warmed cooling water. Its operation has been suspended several times after the currently used nuclear fuel was put into the reactor in December 2015. This time, the burning of the uranium fuel is believed to have been conducted for a longer period compared to in the past.

Meanwhile, signs of operation were confirmed at a steam heating facility, located next to a reprocessing plant in Yongbyon, from late April to early May. However, a longer operation period is needed to extract plutonium from spent fuel. Thus the operation could have been part of preparation to start the reprocessing plant, or aimed at maintenance."

1 posted on 08/21/2018 5:27:45 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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I don’t trust anything from the UN they despise Trump.


2 posted on 08/21/2018 5:36:45 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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On an unrelated topic I wonder what the IAEA’s opinion of Trump is.


3 posted on 08/21/2018 5:36:56 AM PDT by libh8er
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Trump needs to halt all negotiations with NK right now. All sanction put back/stay in place.

Let little Kimmy know we aren’t going to play his games.

Do it now...it’s all they understand.


4 posted on 08/21/2018 5:37:52 AM PDT by FrankR (IF it wasn't for the "F-word", and it's deritiives, the left would have no message at all.)
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"As the Agency remains unable to carry out verification activities in the DPRK, its knowledge of the DPRK's nuclear programme is limited and, as further nuclear activities take place in the country, this knowledge is declining,"

No access since 2009...

5 posted on 08/21/2018 5:38:24 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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Scott Ritter?

6 posted on 08/21/2018 5:50:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

When has any American President said “no” that wasn’t taken as “photo op now, go ahead quietly”?

Kim boy will fight to the last plate on his 5-star buffet.


8 posted on 08/21/2018 5:58:59 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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I see the State Department is hard at work undermining Trump this morning. Laughable


11 posted on 08/21/2018 6:59:27 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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