Examples of using Yongbyon in English and their translations into Vietnamese
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Ri andChoe said the U.S. demanded“one more” measure beyond the Yongbyon dismantlement.
The Yongbyon reactor was shut down in 2007 but, in 2013, Pyongyang started renovating it after its third nuclear test.
We had to have more thanthat,” Trump said when asked about Yongbyon before leaving Hanoi.
Activity at its main Yongbyon nuclear reactor site will be a factor in future talks and Washington will want to see proof of the shutdown of its Punggye-ri test site.
The US demanded"one more" measure beyond dismantling Yongbyon, Ri said without elaborating.
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Ri said talks broke down when the United States'insisted that weshould take one more step' beyond the pledge to abandon Yongbyon.
Yesterday North Korea announced that it was restarting the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, shut down in 2007.
In truth, the destruction of the cooling tower was mostly a symbolic step thatdid little to undo the vast enterprise at Yongbyon.
Amano said the Vienna-based IAEA continued to monitor developments at Yongbyon, mainly through satellite imagery.
However, experts say disabling Yongbyon is a relatively easy first step, compared with verifiably eliminating North Korea's existing stockpile of nuclear materials and weapons.
North Korea agreed earlier thisyear to disable its main nuclear plant at Yongbyon in exchange for economic and energy aid.
In September last year, Pyongyang announced that Yongbyon had been restarted and was working towards improving the"quality and quantity" of arms which it could use against Washington at"any time.".
The photos enabled Albright,who was familiar with the dimensions and characteristics of North Korea's Yongbyon reactor, to compare the various stages at Al Kibar.
The 5-megawatt reactor is part of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex, the possible dismantling of which was a central issue in talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam last week.
Analysts believe North Korea already possesses between 4 and 10 nuclear weapons,based on plutonium produced at the Yongbyon reactor prior to mid-2007, when the facility was closed down.
According to South Korean and other assessments, Yongbyon alone is estimated to have 110 pounds of weaponized plutonium, enough for six to 10 bombs, and a highly enriched uranium inventory of 550 to 1,100 pounds, sufficient for 25 to 30 nuclear devices.
Siegfried Hecker, a nuclear science professor at Stanford University andone of the last Americans to visit Yongbyon, recalled meeting Ri during several visits there between 2004 and 2008.
Nuclear scientist Dr. Siegfried Hecker claimed:"Yongbyon is the heart of North Korea's nuclear program, and if we are completely dismantling the Yongbyon nuclear facility, North Korea would never be able to make plutonium there again".[59].
But when the Americans“insisted that we shouldtake one more step beyond the dismantlement of nuclear facilities at Yongbyon,” he said, it became clear the United States“was not ready to accept our proposal.”.
There are relatively few North Korean nuclear activities that the United States and others could monitor and verify at a level approaching 100-percent certainty without persistent, on-site access- essentially nuclear explosive tests, missile launches,and operation of the Yongbyon reactor.
Still, inspecting the dozens of buildings at Yongbyon could take weeks and full dismantlement would drag on even longer.
Last week, experts from the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US, said that two rail"flatcars" loaded with casks potentiallycontaining chemicals for reprocessing were spotted near the Yongbyon complex's radiochemical laboratory.
He says his teamwill begin disabling the three nuclear installations at Yongbyon, and the second team will arrive about two weeks from now to continue the work.
All the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon including the uranium enrichment plant and 5 MW graphite-moderated reactor were rearranged, changed or readjusted and they started normal operation," the North's state-run KCNA news agency said, citing the director of its atomic agency.
The DPRK has also agreed to the return of IAEA inspectors to verify andmonitor the moratorium on uranium enrichment activities at Yongbyon and confirm the disablement of the 5-MW reactor and associated facilities.".
In addition to its uranium chemical facilities andthe known centrifuge facility at Yongbyon, North Korea has at least one suspected undisclosed uranium enrichment facility elsewhere, which will eventually need to be dismantled as well.”.
Apart from its threats of nuclear attack,the North also warned this week it would reopen its mothballed Yongbyon reactor- its source of weapons-grade plutonium that was closed in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament accord.
Kim has pledged todismantle his most important nuclear processing site at Yongbyon if the United States takes“corresponding steps,” while also claiming in a New Year's Day speech that he has stopped producing weapons.
In the agreement signed Wednesday, Pyongyang pledged to destroy both theTongchang-ri missile engine test site and the Yongbyon nuclear site, which is believed to be used for the production of fissile material, if the United States takes reciprocal measures.
North Korea can significantly increase its nuclearstockpile if a light water reactor under construction at its Yongbyon nuclear complex goes into operation, a U.S. nuclear scientist warned, urging Washington to restart negotiations with Pyongyang.