[정치]”Possibility of developing hydrogen bombs as a North Korean Yongbyon atom… enhancing the mobility of ballistic missiles”

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Recently, warnings have been issued that the capture of smoke at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear facility could be a move to develop hydrogen bombs and that it is necessary to prepare for a radioactive leak.

North Korea’s ballistic missile launch is a process that replaces the existing Scud missile, and it is predicted that additional test launches will continue.

Reporter Seungyoon Lee on the report

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Satellite photo of the Yongbyon nuclear facility complex on the 10th of last month,

US media outlet 38 North says it has caught signs of further activity in a radiochemical laboratory and a uranium enrichment plant.

As North Korea insisted that the development of super-sized hydrogen bombs was completed in January, Lee Sang-min, a research fellow at the Korea Defense Research Institute, analyzed that it could be an attempt to obtain the tritium necessary for this in Yongbyon.

In the past, a fire and radioactivity leaked while producing tritium in a windscale reactor in the UK, a 5MW-class graphite reduction reactor like the Yongbyon reactor.

Experts warned that if an accident occurs while North Korea extracts tritium from Yongbyon, pollutants will flow into the West Sea via the Guryong River and the Cheongcheon River.

[신종우 / 국방안보포럼 연구위원 : 북한이 수소탄 개발을 위해서 영변 핵 시설을 재가동한다면 위험성은 상존할 수밖에 없고요. 그에 따라서 오염수들이 유출되었을 때 환경 오염이 심각해질 수 있습니다.]

It is also predicted that North Korea’s ballistic missile test firing on the 25th of last month will continue for the time being.

While the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Committee on North Korea evaluated that North Korea has improved its mobility by changing the fuel of the propellant for short- and medium-range ballistic missiles from liquid to solid.

Commissioner Lee predicted that North Korea’s replacement of the Scud missile system with the KN-23 and the North Korean version of Iskander would require an additional range extension, so improvements and test launches will continue.

Experts pointed out that the missile defense network could block the KN-23, but it is necessary to reinforce the protective facilities in preparation for North Korea’s new super-sized missile, the KN-25.

YTN Lee Seung-yoon[[email protected]]is.

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