South Korea's nuclear surprise
As more and more countries adopt the IAEA's Additional Protocol, all kinds of nuclear secrets will come spilling out. Currently under the microscope: South Korea.
By Jungmin Kang, Peter Hayes, Li Bin, Tatsujiro Suzuki and Richard Tanter January/February 2005 pp. 40-49 (vol. 61, no. 01) © 2005 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Last fall, under pressure from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), South Korea publicly disclosed its past secret nuclear research activities, revealing that it had conducted chemical uranium enrichment from 1979 to 1981, separated small quantities of plutonium in 1982, experimented with uranium enrichment in 2000, and manufactured depleted uranium munitions from 1983 to 1987. The South Korean government had violated its international agreements by not declaring any of these activities to the IAEA in Vienna. http://www.bullatomsci.org/