專家：美國應施壓朝鮮披露所有祕密核設施

Washington must press Pyongyang to reveal the existence of secret nuclear sites, including the second uranium enrichment facility known as Kangsong, in any nuclear disarmament deal, said a former United Nations nuclear inspector.

The United States must “make sure [North Korean officials] include these additional sites upfront into the deal,” said David Albright, a former United Nations nuclear inspector and current nuclear proliferation analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security. ((ACT 6))

Albright made his comments as another expert said North Korea's increased nuclear activities since the summit in June have raised concerns whether it has violated the agreement made with the U.S. to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

Before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed to Pyongyang on Thursday to discuss denuclearization details, reports of North Korea's secret nuclear sites and upgrades to the Yongbyon nuclear site surfaced. The reports fueled speculation about the real intentions of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un regarding denuclearization, despite what was said to U.S. President Donald Trump during last month's summit in Singapore.

NBC and The Washington Post reported last week that U.S. officials believe, based on the latest intelligence assessments, that North Korea has been making preparations to deceive Washington about how many weapons it has in its possession and that the Kim regime has been increasing its production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons at several secret sites since the summit.

Aside from the Yongbyon facility, which is the only nuclear site the North acknowledges, Pyongyang also operated Kangsong, a secret underground facility that is believed to have the capability to enrich twice the amount of uraniumuranium than Yongbyon.一位前聯合國核檢查員說，美國必須向朝鮮施壓，要它在任何去核協議中披露包括其剛善（Kangsong）鈾濃縮基地在內的所有祕密核設施。

前聯合國核檢查員、目前在科學與國際安全研究所擔任核擴散分析員的奧爾布賴特說，美國在簽署協議之前必須確保朝鮮官員完全披露這些核設施。

與此同時，另外一位專家說，自從6月美朝峯會以來朝鮮核活動的增加令人擔心朝鮮是否已經違反了與美國達成的朝鮮半島去核化協議。

美國國務卿蓬佩奧將前往平壤討論去核進程細節前，媒體報道說，朝鮮還有祕密核設施，並對寧邊核設施進行了改善，引發人們質疑金正恩的真實動機，儘管他上個月在新加坡與美國總統川普會見時做出了去核承諾。

美國全國廣播公司（NBC）和華盛頓郵報上星期報道，根據最新的情報評估，美國官員認爲朝鮮準備在它目前擁有核武器數量上欺騙美國，金正恩政權自從美朝峯會以來在若干祕密核設施增加濃縮鈾的生產。朝鮮只承認它有寧邊核設施，但是據報道，平壤還有剛善祕密地下核設施，濃縮鈾的能力是寧邊核設施的兩倍。