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지난 6일부터 5일간 북한을 방문하고 돌아온 전 미 국무부 특사는 영변 핵 시설 내에 농축 우라늄 프로그램이 존재하지 않음을 확인했다고 밝혔습니다. 그러나 한편으로는 핵 프로그램이 완전히 중단되었다는 확실한 증거는 없다고 덧붙였는데요. 그럼, 전 국무부 특사의 방북 관련 발언을 들어본 다음, 북미 간 핵 문제 해결에 대한 진행 사항을 살펴보도록 하겠습니다. |
N. Korean Nuclear Storage Facility Empty, says US Expert
script ▶ An American expert who was part of a private delegation that visited North Korea earlier this month says Pyongyang is denying U.S. claims that it is developing nuclear weapons. At the same time, though, he says a North Korean storage facility that once contained spent nuclear fuel rods is now empty.
In his first substantive public comments since returning home from a visit to North Korea, former U.S. envoy Charles Pritchard, says North Korean authorities allowed the delegation to see several key nuclear sites, including a storage pond that used to hold 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods.
Mr. Pritchard says North Korean officials told the Americans they have reprocessed the spent nuclear fuel. But he added that he has no way to confirm that information. He says a five megawatt reactor he saw in North Korea was operational, but the reprocessing facility he saw was not.
The former U.S. official said he was with Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly in October 2002, when American officials say Pyongyang acknowledged it had a highly-enriched uranium program. Now, he says, North Korea's position has changed.
"At the time, we firmly believed that we heard the North Koreans admit to their program and in the subsequent weeks, the North Koreans didn't do much to deny that. But over the past year, they have gone from some degree of ambiguity, to neither confirm nor deny, to a denial."
Mr. Pritchard says Pyongyang's denials do not change his opinion that North Korea is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. But he added that he also believes North Korea can be persuaded to stop.
"It was clear to me in this visit that they are still of the mind that it is more important than not to develop a relationship with the United States, and in that regard, they are prepared, at this point, to give up their nuclear weapons program."
However, Mr. Pritchard says in a nine-hour meeting, North Korean Vice Minister Kim Kye Gwan warned the American delegation that the United States is running out of time.
The non-official U.S. delegation that visited North Korea earlier this month also included Siegfried Hecker, a former head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Hecker is scheduled to give a more detailed technical report to the U.S. Senate next week.
Words & Expressions
- delegation : 대표단
- storage facility : 저장시설
- substantive : 실질적인, 현실의
- reactor : 원자로
- operational : 작동하는, 조작의
- with at the time : 그 때에, 당시에
- admit to ~ : ~을 인정하다, 시인하다
- ambiguity : 애매 모호함, 불명확함
- of the mind ~ : ~이라는 마음[의견]인
- in that regard ~ : 그 점에서 보면, 그 점에 관해서
- run out of ~ : ~가 점점 바닥나다
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