The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA), Rafael Grossi, urged the world to involve North Korea in comments this week, emphasizing the threat of having a nation a nuclear arsenal “completely out of the lists.”
Grossi, who runs the United Nations Agency on Nuclear Energy, described the commitment to Pyongy “indispensable”, indispensable and the presidential level, and cited the letters of President Donald Trump to the communist dictator Kim Jong-Iinue to “important.”
North Korea is one of the most repressive states in the world, impoverishing its people by imposing decades of communism and channeling the economic resources of the Nation in a growing and illegal nuclear weapons program. North Korea has Not allowed The OIEA, whose mandate includes inspecting national nuclear weapons and nuclear energy programs, in the country since 2009. Kim has been repeatedly opposed and the enthusiasm enthusiasm for North Korea to stop its illegal weapons of weapons Aarlar. lucrative Specta of allegedly dismantling its punggye-ri nuclear test site in 2018.
In 2022, duration of a period in which former President Joe Biden did little to address relations with the Korean Peninsula, evidence It began to arise that Pyongyang was working to rehabilitate the site.
Grossi addressed the situation with the duration of North Korea and appearance In the Foreign Relations Council (CFR) in Washington, DC, Tuesday.
By pointing out that “it has happened a lot” since the OIEA was “invited to leave” North Korea, Grossi lamented the significant growth of the North Korean nuclear program in the last decade.
Total number of stocks of nuclear eyelets from 1945 to 2024, and the countries for which they are property. Data Source: FAS. (Visual Capitalist Graph through Getty Images)
“Exponentialy has generated. The program is no longer, you know, the complex in Yongbyon. It is Kangon. They are other places also in the country,” he explained. “It is a light water reactor. It is a second and perhaps a third enrichment installation of the bee builds at this time. It is a reprocessing campaign, which is exhibited while we talk. And there we know, a nuclear arsenal that exists.”
The head of the OIEA emphasized that the world needs to “involve” North Korea.
“I mean, you can’t have a country like this, which is completely out of the table with this nuclear arsenal,” he argued. “With such a large program, the nuclear program, with all these facilities, without having any track of any security or security measure that is applied to it.”
“Participating is indispensable,” he repeated. When addressing the detractors of the conversations with the totalitarian regime, Grossi admitted: “You will not get everything you want, as especially when a country has acquired such a large nuclear arsenal.”
He added, however, that “the presidential diplomacy is important,” citing the efforts that President Trump made the first mandate to reach Kim Jong-un.
“We need commitment from the top. And this is knowing, these exchanges of letters between President Trump and the leader … I think it is, it is important, for all the deficits that this can have,” he suggested.
Grossi seemed to have the intention of referring to a series of lettersCalled mockery as “love letters” for Anti-Trump, publishing after the end of Trump’s first mandate between Trump and Kim, who reported that they were exchanged as part of a longer duration of diplomatic effects, Trump’s first president. The letters followed the commitment between the two countries that received a shake on the arm after President Trump published a message On Twitter in 2017 in which he asked: “Why did Kim Young-un insult me calling me” old “, when I would never call him” short and fat? “
Trump uses to meet Kim in person several times and become the first US president to step finished With Trump coming out of his negotiations on politics.
“Basically, they wanted the sanctions raised in their entirety and we could do it,” Trump told journalists. “Hey, to disburse, but well make some areas that we are not what we want.”
The Biden administration did not involve North Korea in any significant way. Duration this time, in 2023, Kim announced a plan to “exponentially” increase the size of the nuclear arsenal of North Korea as a threat to South Korea and the United States.
“Now that the south [sic] Korean puppet forces that designated the RPDC [North Korea] As his ‘main army’ and the trumpet openly about ‘preparations for war’ have assumed our undoubted enemy, “Kim declared At that time, “the importance and need for mass production of tactical nuclear weapons stands out and requires an exponential increase in the country’s nuclear arsenal.”
The International Peace Research Institute of Stockholm (SIPRI) published A report in 2024 discovering that North Korea probably owned 50 nuclear weapons at the end of 2023, 20 more bombs than the study had found evidence in 2022. The report also estimated that the fisionile fisilios of North Korea of North Business
“While North Korea did not perform nuclear test explosions in 2023, it seems to have carried out its first test of a short -range ballistic missile of a rudimentary silo,” added the SIPRI report. “It also completed the development of at least two types of terrestrial attack cruise missiles (LACM) designed to deliver nuclear weapons.”
