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soryang

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Sat Jul 14, 2018, 03:00 PM Jul 2018

Exclusive: Revealing Kangson, North Korea's First Covert Uranium Enrichment Site

This article from the Diplomat.com was getting coverage in South Korea this morning:

Exclusive: Revealing Kangson, North Korea's First Covert Uranium Enrichment Site
For more than a decade, North Korea has operated a uranium enrichment site just outside Pyongyang.

https://thediplomat.com/2018/07/exclusive-revealing-kangson-north-koreas-first-covert-uranium-enrichment-site/

By Ankit Panda

Buried in the article is the caveat from Jeffrey Lewis:

“What we feel comfortable saying is that we can’t say whether it is, or is not, an enrichment plant,” Lewis noted. But, “this is a suitable building that has a number of signatures consistent with that and no obvious inconsistencies,” he continued. Whatever the purpose of the site, Lewis continued, this facility at Kangson was “clearly a sensitive national defense site.”

The Kangson site is not far away from another site in the Chollima area alleged to be an ICBM missile factory. South Korean news said it was 3 km away. The Kangson site was first reported in May by the Washington Post.

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