'kangson' Considered One of Secret Nuke Facilities in Nk

By Park Ji-won

Speculation is circulating over North Korea's secret nuclear facilities US President Donald Trump mentioned amid rumors that one of the areas is a uranium enrichment facility called Kangson located near Pyongyang.

After failing to reach an agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Trump held a press conference and said the US told the North that it had found some hidden nuclear facilities, including a uranium enrichment plant, which likely surprised Kim

'We had to have more than that because there are other things that you haven't talked about, that you haven't written about, that we found.

And we have to have ― that was done a long time ago, but the people didn't know about,' Trump said few hours after the summit was abruptly canceled without notice.

'And we brought many, many points up that I think they were surprised that we knew.

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It appears that Trump asked the North to give up more than it was prepared to, including hidden facilities such as Kangson, adding these its Yongbyon facility if it wanted sanctions to be lifted. This was one of the main reasons for both sides to fail to narrow their differences during the summit.

'There are also timing and sequencing issues that were associated with that as well, which we didn't quite get across the finish line as well. But remember, too, even that facility, even the Yongbyon facility and all of its scope ― which is important, for sure ― still leaves missiles, still leaves warheads and weapons systems.

So there's a lot of other elements that we just couldn't get to,' US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added during the press conference.

It is widely believed that there are several other nuclear sites while Yongbyon is the only facility that North Korea has declared.

In 2018, open-source research identified a probable nuclear facility near Kangson. In the...