Who sold that reactor to North Korea?

[DonQatU]

And when did they sell it to them?

Ticks me off! Probably the French, eh?

Don

 

[jsalcedo]

Pakistan sold it to them in exchange for some high grade North Korean Uranium.

 

[DonQatU]

Pakistan sold it to them in exchange for some high grade North Korean Uranium.

-jsalcedo

You sure, jsalcedo? I thought Pakistan was our ally! No ally would sell a rogue nation like North Korea a nuclear reactor!

Don

 

[LawDog]

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/facility/yongbyon.htm

Actually, the basis for the Yongbyon facility was part of a deal between the old Soviet Union and North Korea during the mid-1960s.

LawDog

 

[jsalcedo]

Paki had the technology and N Korea had the raw materials.

Its kind of like that old reeses peanut-butter cup commercial...

Pakistan wasn't our friend until the military coup of 2001.

But I'm sure you were being faceitous


I'll look for the cite.. it probably came from around here.

 

[DonQatU]

Sorry, I was talking about the two graphite moderated reactors at Yongbon and Taechon that "were expected to yield another 200 kilograms of plutonium annually -- enough plutonium for about 50 atomic bombs per year."

Pakistan?

Don

 

[BamBam]

I'd have guessed Bill Clinton.

 

[Destructo6]

We were going to help them build reactors that wouldn't (couldn't?) produce weapons grade material, but no go.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/2176568.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/16/wkor16.xml