A CNN producer reported that the North Korean authorities did indeed destroy the cooling tower of the Yongbyong nuclear facility and admitted on global television that they did extract plutonium in the said facility to build nuclear weapons. The destruction of the cooling tower is seen as a gesture of the Pyongyang leadership to finally comply to pressures coming from the West, particularly the United States for the communist run government to end pursuing its nuclear weapons program. The facilities at Yongbyong was shuttered July of last year as part of talks with dialog partners; China, Japan, South Korea, Russia , and the United States. In the said document, Pyongyang confirmed that their research resulted in the extraction of 40 kilograms of enriched plutonium, enough to produce at least seven nuclear warheads. Also missing were reports and confirmation of North Korea's assistance to Syria in the later's own nuclear weapons program as well as reports of Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program.
A producer reported that the North Korean authorities did indeed destroy the cooling tower of the and admitted on global television that they did extract in the said facility to build nuclear weapons. The destruction of the cooling tower is seen as a gesture of the leadership to finally comply to pressures coming from the West, particularly the United States for the communist run government to end pursuing its nuclear weapons program. The facilities at Yongbyong was shuttered July of last year as part of talks with dialog partners; China, Japan, South Korea, , and the United States. In the said document, Pyongyang confirmed that their research resulted in the extraction of 40 of enriched plutonium, enough to produce at least seven nuclear warheads. Also missing were reports and confirmation of North Korea's assistance to in the later's own nuclear weapons program as well as reports of Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program.
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