South Korea's nuclear surprise: as more and more countries adopt the IAEA's Additional Protocol, all kinds of nuclear secrets will come spilling out. Currently under microscope: South Korea.(International Atomic Energy Agency)

From: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Bin, Li; Hayes, Peter; Kang, Jungmin; Suzuki, Tatsujiro; Tanter, Richard | Copyright information

LAST FALL, UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), South Korea publicly disclosed its past secret nuclear research activities, revealing that it had conducted chemical uranium enrichment from 1979 to 1981, separated small quantities of plutonium in 1982, experimented with uranium enrichment in 2000, and manufactured depleted uranium munitions from 1983 to 1987. The South Korean government had violated its international agreements by not declaring any of t...

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