<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Michael Green & William Tobey]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=21767Author <![CDATA[Why We're Always Fooled by N. Korea]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600 According to Siegfried Hecker, the former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, North Korea is working on two new nuclear facilities, a light water power reactor in early stages of construction, and a "modern, clean centrifuge plant" for uranium enrichment. Mr. Hecker visited the facility over the weekend and says it appears nearly complete.

The centrifuge plant is particularly significant because it could produce more than enough highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon every year—and it may not be the North's only such facility. North Korea's artillery bombardment of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong on Tuesday makes it doubly clear that Pyongyang ...]]>