[DonQatU]

And when did they sell it to them?

Ticks me off! Probably the French, eh? :rolleyes:

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! :mad:

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:D :D


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