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Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ), June 2019 (Image: Getty)
In 2004, on his first visit to Yongbyon, he held plutonium in a glass jar to determine its authenticity.
He was then extended annual invites to report his assessments of North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, returning to its facilities in Yongbyon and Pyongyang seven times up to 2010.
On September 3, 2017, North Korea carried out its largest nuclear test to date, at its Punggye-ri test site, which was estimated to be at least six times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
North Korea claimed this test was its first thermonuclear weapon - the most powerful kind of nuclear explosion where a secondary fusion process creates a far bigger blast.
The dismantling of North Korea s Yongbyon nuclear complex should not be underestimated in the denuclearization process, an American nuclear expert said Friday. Siegfried Hecker, known for his 2010 visit to the Yongbyon complex, made the remarks during a video conference with Unification Minister Lee In-young and Moon Chung-in, special foreign policy adviser to President Moon Jae-in, also stressing the need for a &qu.
Experts weigh in on how Biden should approach North Korea
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President-elect Joe Biden will face serious challenges in trying to restart nuclear negotiations with North Korea, experts said at a symposium Thursday. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo
Kim Joon-hyung of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy speaks Thursday at a symposium on North Korea held in Seoul. Photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (UPI) With a pandemic raging and the economy reeling at home, North Korea may not be the top priority for President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office next month. But the secretive nuclear-armed state looms as one of his biggest foreign policy challenges.