WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- North Korea appears to have moved to development of a gas centrifuge plant for uranium enrichment, at least as a pilot project, a report released Friday said.
"Taking Stock: North Korea's Uranium Enrichment Program," by the Institute for Science and International Security, said locating the country's centrifuges is a difficult problem. The authors, David Albright and Paul Brannan, said the best way to dismantle the North Korean nuclear program is through negotiations.
"The best comment was, 'Look, there are thousands of sites in North Korea and it could have been any of them,' '' Albright told The Washington Post, citing a Western intelligence official.
Albright and Brannan said they found no evidence North Korea has procured the material needed for a 3,000-centrifuge plant, which would be big enough to produce the enriched uranium needed for one or two nuclear weapons a year.
The North Korean program presents a global danger because the country could develop a substantial nuclear arsenal and because it could provide nuclear material for other states.
