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U.S. Crafty Moves behind S. Korea's Nuclear Weaponization Exposed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) -- The United States is keeping mum about the experiments for nuclear weapons development made by south Korea. This offers another occasion for disclosing the crime of the U.S. in helping south Korea realize its nuclear weaponization. The U.S. has encouraged the south Korean authorities to develop nuclear weapons since the 1960s. This made it possible for south Korea to operate U.S.-made TRIGAR Mark II and TRIGAR Mark III nuclear reactors for research purpose capable of producing nuclear fissionable plutonium in 1962 and 1972 and thus lay a foundation for developing nuclear weapons.
    The October 1983 issue of the south Korean magazine Wolgan Joson disclosed that the authorities had invited nuclear physicists of the U.S. in early 1970s for nuclear development and had pressed for the purchase of nuclear reactors from several countries. This was unthinkable apart from the U.S. connivance at that time.
    In 1985 the south Korean authorities began the designing of a multi-purpose research reactor which was an instant plutonium producing reactor and set it in motion in 1992. All this was possible through negotiation with the U.S.
    A particular mention should be made of the fact that the U.S. shut its eyes to the introduction of Candu-type PHWR which was being promoted by the south Korean authorities in the 1970s although it knew that it was aimed to produce nuclear weapons.
    The U.S. sometimes took an active part in the south Korean authorities' moves to develop nuclear weapons. A guided missile test-launching was made on September 26, 1978 in the presence of the chief executive of south Korea and the U.S. 8th army commander, hinting the start of the production of nuclear weapons in south Korea and plutonium was extracted from nuclear fuel rods churned out at the Kori Atomic Power Station in May, 1985 under an agreement reached with the U.S.
    Many years ago, the U.S. drew the plain conclusion that "south Korea has capability to produce nuclear weapons", thus self-exposing that it was aware of south Korea's nuclear weapons development and that it has connived at and encouraged it.