“North Korea could make Iran look easy,” Ernest J. Moniz, the former Energy Department secretary and nuclear scientist who negotiated many details of the 2015 deal during the Obama administration, said last week. PhotoEveryone agrees that such a program of disarmament would involve the North’s surrendering its nuclear arms. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySo far, the Trump administration has not said whether North Korea would have to dismantle most or all of its nuclear-fuel production facilities, which are believed to be much more numerous than Iran’s. are not trained to recognize or handle nuclear weapons; they are basically forensic accountants, keeping track of uranium and plutonium flows through factories and of equipment that can be used to produce nuclear fuel. Iran, by contrast, has about a dozen significant sites and never developed nuclear weapons.

Source: New York Times May 06, 2018 21:19 UTC