By Jason Miks
North Korea may have secretly detonated two nuclear devices made with highly enriched uranium in 2010, with one or both of the test blasts possibly being undertaken on behalf of Iran, according to a report highlighted in a daily security briefing I received from Congressional Quarterly.
The original source for the CQ briefing is Austrian newspaper Wiener Zietung, which appears to be elaborating on a story that appeared Sunday in German paper Die Welt that it claims was based on “Western intelligence sources.” TheDie Welt piece, meanwhile, noted evidence of the alleged 2010 nuclear tests was published last month in Nature.
Confused yet?
The Nature article is actually very interesting, coming from Swedish nuclear physicist Lars-Erik de Geer, research director for the Defense Research Agency in Stockholm. He’s said to have analyzed data “showing the presence of radioisotopes that betrayed a uranium bomb explosion.”
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