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Commercial satellite imagery from June 21 indicates that improvements to the infrastructure at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace. Modifications to the 5 MWe plutonium production reactor’s cooling system appear complete, but a less-than-normal cooling water discharge from the outfall pipe makes a determination of the reactor’s operational statu

On March 31, 2018, Japan’s Foreign Minister, Taro Kono, in a lecture in Kochi city, is reported to have said that North Korea appears to be “working hard to get ready for the next nuclear test,” and the associated reporting claims that he had added that soil had been “removed from the tunnel at the nuclear test site where past tests were conducted.” The reporting also suggested that his remarks “m

３８ノースは今月から、韓国、日本、中国の読者のために、一部の記事を英語から韓国語・日本語・中国語に訳していきます。我々の分析をより多くの読者に届け、北朝鮮で起きる重要な出来事を読者がさらに良く理解できるよう手助けするために、これら３つの言語で毎月記事を掲載していきます。 ３８ノースの読者全ての方の支援に感謝するとともに、我々の関連ページでの新しい分析やその他の記事を、ぜひ頻繁にチェックしていただきたいと思います。 ４０年近くにわたって北朝鮮情勢を追い続け、政府高官級交渉への出席やKEDO（朝鮮半島エネルギー開発機構）と北朝鮮側の協議を主導してきた元米政府の官僚として、北朝鮮との交渉がどういうものなのか、ｌアドバイスをしたい。特に、ニコラス・エバースタット氏がワシントン・ポスト紙に寄稿した論説「北朝鮮との対話は、ゼロ・サム的なゲームである。このゲームのしかたは、こうである」に反応したい。彼は

At various times over the past few weeks, US President Donald Trump and other members of his administration have threatened to use military force to prevent North Korea from conducting additional nuclear or ballistic missile tests. The US carrying out any military option raises a significant risk of military escalation by the North, including the use of nuclear weapons against South Korea and Japa

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