Surprise: North Korea Is Enriching Uranium!

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American Spectator:

Surprise: North Korea Is Enriching Uranium!
By Doug Bandow on 11.22.10 @ 6:08AM

North Korea is nothing if not predictable. It has unveiled a new nuclear enrichment plant. The U.S. and its allies are now scrambling to respond.

Surely the latest development in the so-called Democratic People's Republic of Korea surprises no one.

If the issue weren't so serious, it would be a comedy routine. The Obama administration came into office hoping to put the North on the back policy burner. Last year Pyongyang staged another nuclear test to remind America that it was still around.

The Republic of Korea's conservative government reversed the "Sunshine Policy" of its predecessors, cutting off most subsidies for the DPRK. In March the North sank a South Korean warship. Supposedly tough-minded ROK President Lee Myung-bak did little more than whine. Rather than closing the Kaesong industrial development, which provides North Korea with much-needed hard currency, Seoul demanded an apology.

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I read something interesting about the StuxNet virus that infected Iran's nuclear facility & material prep-site; on DougRoss@Journal. [Three separate areas-keep scrolling down if you go there]

 

The virus was compared to the newest F-35 fighter jet appearing on a WWI battlefield & engaging bi-planes......in terms of E-weapon's. It was specifically engineered for the frequency convertor drives [power supply units that regulate the frequency of the output & control the speed of motors used for nuclear enrichment] of two types of those machines built in Finland & Tehran. It is a dormant "bug" that monitors the speed of the motors and after a period of time, makes changes to the output & speed, causing breakdowns & improperly processed nuclear refinement. Iran's Bushehr reactor was compromised with the same "bug" in it's cooling capacity. After long periods of normal operation the unit will alter the speed of the drive motors going from 1410Hz to 2Hz, and then to 1064HZ. This causes massive problems with their centrifuge enrichment....even in areas that are unknown to IAEA inspectors.

 

Symantec experts have been reverse-engineering the StuxNet infoweapon, and are amazed at how targeted & intricate it is, as far as it's destructive capabilities. The frequency & speed changes, cause centrifuge rotor failure; and in the case of the Bushehr reactor, infected the external turbine contoller [a 150 foot piece of metal] that would destroy the turbine with as much damage as an "air strike."

 

North Korea meet StuxNet......StuxNet meet North Korea.