North Korea Has Promoted the Development of Nuclear Since 1950s

Newsweek announced in its new edition that North Korea has been promoting the development of nuclear, such as collecting main parts of nuclear and information of materials, since the 1950s.

According to Newsweek, North Korea had opportunities from Japan but not from China or the former Soviet Union. Scientists studying in Japan during the Japanese Colonial Period were the first generations to develop the unclear nuclear situations while forming the elite scientists group in the 1950s.

After the Second World War, Japan fled from North Korea, leaving the uranium mine, the part of the secret unclear programs and facilities in the forest area, where North Korea exported the uranium to the former Soviet Union to make war expenditures. North Korea also ordered some scientists and engineers of the left-wingers within South Korea go to North Korea and become the heads of nuclear development, causing great disorder within South Korea right after their independence from Japan.

The former Soviet Union invited North Korea Scientists to the Dub or Nuclear Research Institute. 250 North Korean scientists took the invitation and studied nuclear in these places. Afterwards, the former Soviet Union established its atomic reactor with 2MW scale in the Younbyun of North Korea and has been put into operation since 1965.

After North Korea became estranged from the former Soviet Union, they decided to develop unidentified nuclear situations on its own. North Korea enlarged the capability of Youngbyun atomic reactor twice in the 1970’s and built the graphite atomic reactor with 5MW scale. After this, North Korea had a relationship with Pakistan as a new partner and was supplied the main parts for nuclear development from Pakistan. It was known that Abdul Kader Kan, called the father of unclear development in Pakistan, visited North Korea thirteen times and helped the development of nuclear facilities.

Meanwhile, Newsweek added that information specialists in the western countries confirmed that North Korea’s utterance about unclear deterrence possession was not an exaggeration and nuclear development of North Korea was near completion.

Jin Lee leej@donga.com