U.S. says North Korea has a large number of plutonium can produce 4-7 nuclear bombs
Date:2011-08-30Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0
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Global Network reporter Chang reported Yonhap reported on 31 January, the U.S. Congress Bureau of Investigation (CRS) analysis is that North Korea may have to manufacture 4-7 nuclear warhead plutonium.
According to reports, the U.S. Congress Bureau of Investigation on January 20 entitled “North Korean nuclear weapons, technical issues,” the report said, “It is speculated that North Korea had previously extracted the 30-50 kg of plutonium, and later in 2006. and 2009 nuclear tests in the use of 5-6 kilograms. ” The report also said, if the manufacture of a nuclear warhead requires 6 kg of plutonium, North Korea has started or 5-8 can be manufactured plutonium for nuclear warheads, after carrying out two nuclear tests, the current can produce 4-7 nuclear warheads with plutonium.
In addition, the report on North Korea to the United States last year, experts such as Stanford University professor Hector has expressed publicly its uranium enrichment facilities, from the scale of uranium enrichment facilities at Yongbyon, North Korea may also have research in other areas facilities.
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