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Unidentified foreign scientists helping North Korea’s secret nuclear site

the report also cites evidence that foreign scientists visiting North Korea contributed their expertise to construction of the plant. No country of origin was identified.

North Korea Has at Least One Secret Nuclear Site, UN Report Says, Bloomberg, By Bill Varner – Feb 1, 2011 North Korea  likely has at least one secret nuclear facility, in addition to a plant at Yongbyon whose existence was reported last year, according to diplomats who have read a confidential United Nations report.

A UN panel of nuclear experts also said in the report that North Korea is receiving technical assistance from visiting foreign scientists, according to the diplomats who described the findings and asked not to be identified because the report hasn’t been made public. The panel reached its conclusions during a two-month investigation of the Yongbyon facility.

The Yongbyon plant’s existence was disclosed following the North Korean government-authorized visit of Siegfried Hecker, a professor at Stanford University in California.

The report, commissioned by the UN Security Council committee to implement sanctions against North Korea, says it’s likely that centrifuges and other equipment in the Yongbyon reactor were previously operating at one or more secret locations, according to the diplomats.

They said the report also cites evidence that foreign scientists visiting North Korea contributed their expertise to construction of the plant. No country of origin was identified…….

North Korea Has at Least One Secret Nuclear Site, UN Report Says – Bloomberg

February 1, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | North Korea, secrets,lies and civil liberties