US experts visited a nuclear center in Yonben

The unofficial delegation from the United States, which visited the DPRK, visited the nuclear center in Yonben during the visit. This was announced at the airport of Beijing a member of the delegation, professor at the University of Stanford John Lewis. Four representatives of American socio-political and scientific circles are here on the way from Pyongyang, where they were at the invitation of the DPRK Foreign Ministry.

According to ITAR-TASS, American guests became the first foreigners who visited a complex of nuclear developments in Yonben after it was left more than a year ago at the request of Pyongyan were left by inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

US representatives did not reveal the details of this and other points of their program in the DPRK. As explained by Zig Heker, the nuclear holder, the former director of the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, his group will have to make a report on the visit to the US departments.

Nevertheless, the Americans said that they were very pleased with a five -day trip. Their main task, according to Lewis, was "clarifying a number of important issues of relations between the DPRK and the USA." He noted that the delegation "got acquainted with the situation in the country as a whole, and not just with aspects regarding the nuclear program" Pyongyang.

The USA believes that the center in Yonben is used by Pyongyan to create nuclear weapons.

Meetings of representatives of the United States with representatives of the Foreign Ministry, economic, scientific and military departments took place. The Americans especially noted that the receiving party satisfied all the preliminary requests for the visit program and provided a “very kind” technique.

What is in Yonben

In Yonben are the main well -known Nuclear Objects of the DPRK, including the only reactor in the country with a capacity of 5 thousand kilowatts. There is also a radiochemical laboratory, where Pyongyang is allegedly led to the extraction of arms plutonium from irradiated fuel rods. In addition to a 50 thousand kW reactor unfinished in Yonben in the middle of the last decade, the construction of the reactor for 200 thousand kW in Techon was also stopped in the DPRK. There is no data on the resumption of work on its construction.

According to agreements with the United States of 1994, the DPRK froze the activities of its nuclear facilities in exchange for a promise to build two light water reactors, which are difficult to use for military purposes. Before their construction, Washington also pledged to supply the DPRK fuel oil for the needs of energy. However, last year the United States actually abandoned this agreement, accusing Pyongyang of trying to secretly enrich Uranus.

In response, the DPRK announced the withdrawal of nuclear weapons and said that she resumed the work of her nuclear facilities.