The OIEA signals nuclear activity in North Korea’s installations: “Its motive for serious preoccupation”

The Director-General of Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA), Rafael Grossi.  REUTERS / Lisi Niesner
The Director-General of Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA), Rafael Grossi. REUTERS / Lisi Niesner

The UN nuclear vigilante jefe, Rafael Grossi, asurur recently has detected activity signals in some nuclear installations of North Korea and expressed a “series of preoccupations” with the continued activities of the Kim Jong-un regime.

Grossi, Director-General del Atomic Energy International Organization (OIEA), afirmó que hooi Evidence that the regime has continued the construction of an experimental water reactor on its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, includes infrastructure tests for water infrastructure in 2020 finals, informs The Korea Herald.

Añadió que si bien has no enriched uranium production signals in the Yongbyon Centrifugation Installation Plant, there are indications of activity in the course of another installation in Kangson, in the afueras of Pyongyang.

A visit to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Investigation Center in the mouth of the Kuryong River in Yongbyon, North Korea, July 22, 2020. Photo taken on July 22, 2020. Airbus Defense & Space Mandatory Credit and 38 North / Pléyades © CNES 2020, Airbus DS distribution through REUTERS
A visit to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Investigation Center in the mouth of the Kuryong River in Yongbyon, North Korea, July 22, 2020. Photo taken on July 22, 2020. Airbus Defense & Space Mandatory Credit and 38 North / Pléyades © CNES 2020, Airbus DS distribution through REUTERS

Since time immemorial it has been speculated that Kangson’s site is the regime’s clandestine installation for uranium enrichment or combustion for nuclear bombs, consigna The Korea Herald. Sin embargo, 38 North, a monitoring site of North Korea’s monitoring site with United States headquarters, informed in December that Kangson could not be a uranium enrichment plant, so dedicated to producing related components for uranium enrichment.

In the complex of Yongbyon, Grossi dijo que does not have operating signals in the 5 megawatt nuclear reactor, the main source of plutonium apto for arms of the country, nor of uranium production enriched in the installation of enrichment by centrifugation reported alli. Pero hubo indications of operating the plant that will be sent to the radiochemical laboratory.

Grossi enfatizó that the nuclear activities of North Korea are following a “Motive of preoccupation series”.

“The continuation of the nuclear program of the RPDC (Republic of Popular Democracy of Korea) is a clear violation of the relevant resolution of the Security Council of the UN and is deeply lamentable”, señaló.

Rafael Grossi.  REUTERS / Lisi Niesner
Rafael Grossi. REUTERS / Lisi Niesner

“Hago un llamamiento a la RPDC para que complete pledge with its obligations in view of the resolutions of the Security Council, which cooperate immediately with the Body in the full and effective implementation of its TNG Accordion Salvaguard (Treated by No Nuclear Proliferation) and that resuelva todas las questionnaires pendientes”, Añadió.

Pyongyang expelled – a loose inspectors del OIEA in 2009 and, since then, the agency has monitored the country’s nuclear program to provide information and satellite imagery. North Korea’s last and largest nuclear test in 2017, when afirmó haber tried with the success of a hydrogen bomb.

Kim Jong-un inspects the H bomb that is being tried seriously
Kim Jong-un inspects the H bomb that is being tried seriously “with success” (KCNA via Reuters)

Mientras tanto, the recent name ambassador of the United States prior to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, manifests the moons that North Korea continues to represent a series of plans for world peace and security, and that their country will be preceded by a regime in order to become nuclear.

“We believe that Korea of ​​the North constitutes a series of agreements for our peace and security and for the world. For this reason we have a vital interest in dealing with North Korea despite this objective, and we are also defenders of its provocations or the use of force ”, indicates Thomas-Greenfield during his first press conference.

“President Biden has clearly stated that we will participate in a diplomacy of principles, together with our allies and societies, and we will continue to pursue a nuclear power in the North Korea”, Añadió.

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