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U.S. says has proof of N.Korea
uranium program
Reuters
Saturday December 1, 2007
The United States has evidence North Korea purchased
equipment to enrich uranium, a key step in producing nuclear weapons,
a U.S. envoy was quoted as saying on Saturday.
The United States in 2002 first accused the North of running
a covert nuclear program by enriching uranium, a charge that triggered
the demise of a 1994 deal to disarm the North's nuclear arms program.
Despite North Korea's denial of the existence of a uranium enrichment
program, there is "credible evidence" of its purchase
of equipment and materials that could be used for just that, U.S.
nuclear envoy Christopher Hill was quoted as saying by Yonhap
news agency.
A U.S. embassy official in Seoul could not immediately confirm
Hill's comments, which he said were made at a privately arranged
function at a university.
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Hill said he was confident the North would fully clear up the
suspicion by the end of the year, including questions about how
the centrifuges and aluminum tubes it had bought were used.
North Korea has an abundant supply of natural uranium but not
all the equipment or even a reliable source of electricity to
run a large-scale enrichment program, experts have said.
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