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Eye Witness Account of Nuclear Bomb by a Former N. Korean Nuke Technician, a Defector
Sankei Shimbun ^ | 06/26/08
Posted on June 27, 2008 7:00:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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Eye Witness Account of Nuclear Bomb by a Former N. Korean Nuke Technician, a Defector
Satellite Photograph of the bomb assembly facility made public
2008.6.26 18:46
Topics of this news: The North Korean Nuclear Problem
On June 26, a Korean Peninsula affairs team at a think tank called the “Japanese policy research center”(Tokyo,) held a press conference at a friendship hall of Tokyo’s Minato-ku-ji, announcing that a former N. Korean nuclear technician, now a defector, gave a clear testimony that he had seen a nuclear bomb in January, 2001.
According to Aiya Osamu, a journalist who made announcement, and other participants, the nuclear technician(specialist in (high) explosives) is Park Wan-chol (alias) who defected to S. Korea in 2005. In an interview conducted by experts last month, he testified that he witnessed the bomb in person at a building near Party Committee (building) of Yongbyun. There was one nuclear bomb placed in a room,
It is of cylindrical shape, about 1 meter in diameter and height, and electrical wires were wound around the top and the bottom part of it. He said, “At the site, there were up to 60 ignition devices. Detonation charge and plutonium were also inside. A neutron firing device with beryllium and others was located at the center. If you align them properly, you have a nuclear bomb.” He also said, “N. Korea has already given up plutonium development, and changed the direction of their research.”
According to Mr. Osamu, the facilities were built in 80’s. He said, “The nuclear bomb cannot be mounted on a Rodong or other missiles due to its size. However, N. Korea has the expertise on (high) explosives, which is a key to miniaturization of nuclear bomb and could have made some advances on miniaturization.”
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