Pompeii, from the 6th to the 7th visit to North Korea "Does the uranium enrichment facility work?"

US Secretary of State Mike Pompei told Yomiuri Shimbun that North Korea "was operating a secret uranium enrichment facility" during a meeting with the US government. Vice President Kim Young- Cited a South Korean source as a report at the top of the first page on the 16th.

According to the newspaper, Pompei told the vice president at the talks that "North Korea is developing its production of Enriched uranium and conceals nuclear facilities and nuclear warheads ". There is also information that the Hamheung missile factory is expanding. This is not a good thing for the relationship, "he said. Kim says," This is not true, "said Kim." We've never hidden nuclear facilities and nuclear warheads, nor operated a secret uranium enrichment facility. "Kim said the Hamhung missile factory was" a construction project for the rainy season, not for the future. " Expansion. "

Pompei also urged North Korea to hasten its denuclearization, saying that there is a limit to the US's patience in the talks. However, the Vice President Kim emphasized North Korea's willingness to denuclearize, but demanded that he announce the declaration of the end of the early Korean War without submitting his timetable.

Minister Pompei reported this to the President American Donald Trump after the visit.The President Trump said that he wanted to reinforce the pressure on North Korea to continue negotiations with North Korea, and asked Pompei to give him his opinion.

Shortly after the talks, North Korea declared: "The United States is committed to denuclearization, declaration and verification in its own right, verifiable and irreversible, in the spirit from the meeting and with the head of Singapore.I came up with a request. "

In addition to plutonium, the highly enriched uranium facility, which is a raw material for nuclear bombs, does not come into existence. is known to no one except North Korea's Yongbyon in 2010. Even though North Korea is implementing denuclearization, he said.

On May 30, the Washington Post reported that US intelligence had confirmed the existence of a uranium enrichment plant that more than doubled Yongbyon's production called "Kangsun". The Mainichi Shimbun reported on the 16th that the "Kangsun" is located in the Chunrimima district in Nampo, Nam Pyongan, quoting the American diplomatic magazine "The Diplomat". A team led by Dr. Jeffrey Lewis of the Nonproliferation Studies Center at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies badyzed the satellite images of the region.

Yomiuri stated that it is highly likely that Pompei Oh, from Pyongyang, pursued specific facilities in North Korea on the basis of information that he had collected during his visit to North Korea The US government is working against the denuclearization of North Korea. And that he seems to be more and more suspicious.

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