美國商業週刊 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-11/north-korea-says-it-achieves- nuclear-fusion-reaction-update2-.html North Korea Says It Achieves Nuclear Fusion Reaction May 11, 2010, 11:15 PM EDT (Adds analyst comment in third paragraph.) By Bomi Lim and Kyunghee Park May 12 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea said it has succeeded in carrying out a nuclear fusion reaction, calling it a step to develop a new source of clean energy. The reaction took place last month and was achieved using only North Korean technology, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper said today in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency. North Korea has developed its own thermonuclear reaction devices and completed basic research into nuclear fusion reactions, KCNA said. “The technology North Korea claims to have developed seems to be in very, very early stages,” said Song Ki Chang, a researcher at the Daejeon, South Korea-based Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. “It seems the claim is more aimed at boasting about its nuclear technology prowess to the world.” Global scientists are working to create a nuclear fusion power plant, which would produce little radioactive waste, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Any advance by North Korea would likely be insignificant and have limited immediate use for power generation or making a weapon, Song said. A fusion reaction also takes place in a thermonuclear weapon, or hydrogen bomb. Several countries have achieved nuclear fusion in experiments, including South Korea, though none have put the technology to a commercial use, Song said. ‘Definitive Breakthrough’ North Korea “made a definitive breakthrough toward the development of new energy,” KCNA said, without specifying how the fusion technology will be used. Kim Jong Il’s regime has tested two nuclear devices, the second in May 2009, which prompted the United Nations Security Council to toughen sanctions. North Korea vowed in April 2009 never to return to multilateral talks on its nuclear weapons program, and has refused to return until the sanctions were removed. The negotiations, also involving China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the U.S., last convened in December 2008. “It’s North Korea’s way of saying, ‘Meet our demands and resume the talks, or our nuclear technology will only get more sophisticated,’” said Yang Moo Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. “While it remains to be seen if their claim is true, development of any kind of nuclear-related technology by North Korea is worrisome.” Since it quit the disarmament talks, North Korea restored its Yongbyon nuclear reactor which had been disabled under a February 2007 accord. The country told the UN Security Council in September it was “weaponizing” plutonium and has almost succeeded in highly enriching uranium, the second means of creating an atomic device. --Editors: Bill Austin, Patrick Harrington To contact the reporter on this story: Bomi Lim in Seoul at [email protected]; Kyunghee Park in Seoul at [email protected] To contact the editor responsible for this story: Bill Austin at [email protected] -- 蔣經國告訴我們一個國家應該要怎樣治理 李登輝讓我們知道一個國家是怎樣被治理 陳水扁讓我們知道原來笨蛋也能治理國家 馬英九讓我們曉得原來不是每個笨蛋都能治理國家 --

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