A State Department team is traveling to South Korea Sunday, after a U.S. scientist reported that North Korea has a new uranium enrichment facility.
North Korean officials said the facility is operating and producing low-enriched uranium, according to Stanford University professor Siegfried S. Hecker. The scientist posted a report of his November 12 visit to the Yongbyon, North Korea, facility on the university’s website Saturday.
The enrichment program claim is “yet another provocative act of defiance and, if true, contradicts its own pledges and commitments,” a senior official in U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration said.
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