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U.S. expert dismisses N. Korea's uranium bomb threat as exaggeration
By Hwang Doo-hyong
WASHINGTON, June 15 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. expert on nuclear technology Monday dismissed as exaggeration the threat by North Korea to begin enriching uranium to make further nuclear bombs.
"I tend to think that is an exaggeration in terms of how quickly they can do with the centrifuge plant," David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency. "There is some kind of research and experimental program, some kind of development project."
Albright, a physicist and founder of the Washington-based independent research institute specializing in nuclear technology, was discussing the first acknowledgment by the reclusive communist state that it has a uranium program aside from its plutonium-based nuclear reactor, which had been in the process of being disabled under a six-party deal for the North's denuclearization.
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