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An excerpt from "Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program"
Siegfried Hecker, a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 21 January, 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Hecker, who was a member of an unofficial US delegation that visited the controversial Yongbyon research complex this month, told lawmakers that North Korea can accumulate six Kilograms (13.2 pounds) a year of plutonium that could be used to make a nuclear weapon.
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Resumed North Korean ICBM Testing: Possible Technical Objectives
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North Korea's Experimental Light Water Reactor: Possible Testing of Cooling System
By: Elliot Serbin and Allison Puccioni December 6, 2019 Satellite Imagery, WMD After analyzing over 170 high-resolution commercial satellite images of North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center captured between August 2012 and November 2019, Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)[1] has observed activity at the Experimental Light Water Reactor (ELWR) that may provide new insights into its operational status.
38 North Interview with Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt on the UN Panel of Experts Latest Report to the Security Council Published Today
By: 38 North September 5, 2019 Commentary, Foreign Affairs Interviewee: Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, former Finance and Economics Expert on UN Panel of Experts Established Pursuant to Resolution 1874. What are the key findings of this new report?
The More We Wait, The Worse It Will Get
By: Siegfried S. Hecker, Robert Carlin and Elliot Serbin September 4, 2019 Commentary (Photo: iStock) With apologies to T.S. Eliot, August was the cruelest month. US-DPRK working-level talks did not begin, as most observers expected, after US-ROK joint military exercises ended on August 20. For a variety of reasons, the diplomatic window seems to be narrowing.
Opinion | Why we’re optimistic about the Trump-Kim summit
A sign in a Korean restaurant in Hanoi welcomes President Trump and Kim Jong Un, who are scheduled to meet on Feb. 27-28 in the Vietnamese capital. (Linh Pham/Getty Images) By Siegfried S. Hecker , February 20 at 5:58 PM Siegfried S. Hecker was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is a senior fellow emeritus at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Robert L.
Total denuclearization is an unattainable goal — here's how reduce the North Korean nuclear threat
A KN-08 missile on a TEL at a military parade in Pyongyang in April 2012. There is no evidence that the KN-08 is operational but North Korea continues to develop its ballistic missile program. North Korea At the June 12 summit in Singapore, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took a big step away from the brink of war. They must now take an equally big step to eliminate nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
Total Denuclearization Is an Unattainable Goal. Here’s How to Reduce the North Korean Threat.
Total Denuclearization Is an Unattainable Goal. Here’s How to Reduce the North Korean Threat. At the June 12 summit in Singapore, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took a big step away from the brink of war. They must now take an equally big step to eliminate nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.
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