北朝鮮はすべての核施設への活動を再開すると宣伝
Corea del Norte reanudará la actividad en todas sus instalaciones nucleares
Entre las plantas que volverán a funcionar está el reactor nuclear de Yongbyon, cerrado en 2007
Seúl promete una respuesta contundente a cualquier "provocación"
Pyongyang eleva el tono hostil y se declara en “estado de guerra”
Jose Reinoso Pekín 2 ABR 2013 - 17:52 CET
North Korea resume activity on all its nuclear facilities
Among the plants that return to work is the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, closed in 2007
Seoul promised a tough response to any "provocation"
Pyongyang raised the hostile tone and declared a "state of war"
Jose Reinoso Beijing 2 ABR 2013 - 17:52 CET
The deployment, on Monday, a U.S. destroyer capable of intercepting missiles against South Korea's west coast has received an immediate response from North Korea. Pyongyang has said Tuesday it will re-launch all its nuclear facilities, including the reactor at Yongbyon plant, which has been closed since 2007, as reported by the official news agency KCNA. The announcement raises the temperature one degree of the crisis in the Korean peninsula since the launch last December of a rocket by North, who, as Washington and its allies, was a ballistic missile test-something that Pyongyang denies -, and the nuclear test carried out on 12 February.
A spokesman for the General Department of Atomic Energy has said that the North Korean decision includes "reset and start" of all facilities in Yongbyon complex, including the uranium enrichment plant and a graphite reactor five megawatts, the only known source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons program. It is unclear how long it might take to reactivate the reactor, although experts estimate between three months and one year. Nuclear bombs can be made of plutonium or highly enriched uranium.
The North Korean nuclear race
1994 - Exchange of commitments
In 1994, North Korea and the U.S. reached an agreement by which Pyongyang agrees to stop production of plutonium at the Yongbyon plant. U.S. offers aids change of two nuclear construction for electric energy production.
2002 - Secret Plans
In October 2002 confirmed that North Korea has a secret program to enrich uranium. The regime announced it will resume activities Yongbyon reactor and expelled the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
2003 - Dialogue to six
North Korea agrees to sit at the negotiating table with the U.S., South Korea, Japan, China and Russia to discuss a disarmament program. In September 2005, agreed a plan of disarmament-for-aid. A day later recants.
2006 - First nuclear test
In October, North Korea carried out its first nuclear test, sparking international alarm.
2007 - Back to the negotiation
In February, North Korea again accepts cripple its nuclear program in exchange for aid.
2008 - New reverse
In June 2008, Pyongyang announced the dismantling of its nuclear facilities and flies the cooling tower of the Yongbyon reactor. But reverses the decision two months later. In May 2009, Pyongyang conducted its second nuclear test.
2010 - Pyongyang unleashed international alarm
Progress North Korean atomic increase regional tension. In November, North Korean shells impacting on a South Korean island and Seoul activates the highest level of alert in peacetime.
The North Korean spokesman, who was not identified, said that the move is part of efforts to address the lack of energy in the country, but also is designed to "increase nuclear armed force both in quality and in quantity." The announcement was received with warmth by China, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, has said only that Beijing regrets the decision of its neighbor.
The North shut down the Yongbyon plutonium reactor in 2007 in exchange for aid, in the context of international negotiations to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, and the following summer destroyed the cooling tower. The reactor was the only source of plutonium from nuclear weapons program, although it is estimated that the country has a stock of 24 to 42 kilograms, enough to make four to eight bombs similar to the one used by the U.S. in Nagasaki in the Second War World.
Revealed that Pyongyang had a uranium enrichment program in 2010, when he allowed a group of visiting foreign experts centrifuge facilities. Then, said the enrichment was only low level to produce energy. But the use of the word "adjustment" by the North Korean spokesman raise suspicions about the possible intention of Pyongyang to transform the facility to produce uranium for military use, if it has not already been done. Many analysts believe that North Korea has for years secretly producing highly enriched uranium, and that the nuclear test conducted in February-the third of his story could have been a uranium bomb. The two previous trials, in 2006 and 2009 - were plutonium device.
The existence of a uranium enrichment program worries experts because the technology to make atomic bombs with it is easier to hide than large facilities for plutonium, but this is considered more suitable for the manufacture of nuclear warheads small enough to be carried by missiles. Experts believe that the North does not dominate the technology of miniaturization.
The Korean peninsula is immersed in a spiral of tension. The atomic test in February was followed by the imposition of new sanctions by the UN, which raised the ire of the North Korean regime and led to a flood of reprisals and war rhetoric. Pyongyang has broken the armistice of the Korean War (1950-1953) and has threatened U.S. and South Korea with nuclear and missile attacks. Last Saturday, was declared a "state of war" with the South. Also, is furious over the military exercises being carried out, as every year, Seoul and Washington in the area, and have included a display of war machine more than at other times, including nuclear capable bombers and B-52 B-2-latter-stealth fighters and F-22 stealth also. North Korea considers these maneuvers a rehearsal for invading their territory.
In recent days, the regime of Kim Jong-un has made it clear, in case there was any doubt, it considers the possession of atomic weapons vital to their survival, and are not negotiable. "The modernization of the nuclear industry is key to developing the technology to produce lighter miniaturized nuclear weapons," said Kim Jong-un on Sunday at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party, according to KCNA. In it, the leaders said the North Korean nuclear weapons program is "the life of the nation", an important component of their defense and an asset that can not be negotiated nor by "billions of dollars".
North Korea's parliament on Monday approved the appointment of a new prime minister considered an economic reformer. Put-ju Pak returns to the position he held from 2003 to 2007 and from which he was expelled because he tried to implement some practices considered too close to American capitalism, as the salary at the time, said then the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun. His appointment is seen as an attempt by Kim Jong-un to promote the development of impoverished North Korean economy.
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