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Experts: 2nd N. Korea Nuke Site Possible
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| Last Edited | Jester5716 Jul 20, 2003 02:34pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Sunday, July 20, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) would find it hard to secretly build another plutonium production plant, a key step toward making nuclear weapons, South Korean experts said Sunday. Yet they did not rule it out following a report that the North may be operating a second facility, possibly buried deep in the mountains.
If true, the suspicions that North Korea has built a second plant for producing weapons-grade plutonium could complicate diplomatic efforts to seek the verifiable dismantling of Pyongyang's nuclear facilities. It also poses a dilemma for President Bush (news - web sites) if diplomacy fails and he is forced to consider military action.
Visiting Seoul, British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) said Sunday that North Korea must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, and that multilateral talks involving the United States, China, Japan and the two Koreas were essential to a resolution.
"This is a situation which I think has to be handled with a special sensitivity," Blair said at a joint news conference with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
U.S. and U.N. officials are watching for signs that Pyongyang has begun producing weapons-grade plutonium, a process that emits a kind of krypton gas that U.S. sensors can detect. The New York Times reported Sunday that American officials confirmed that sensors on the North Korean border have detected elevated levels of krypton 85. |
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