DPRK SOUGHT ENOUGH ALUMINUM TUBING IN GERMANY FOR 4,000 CENTRIFUGES

摘要

Procurement agents from the Democratic People’s Republic ofnKorea (DPRK) last year made contacts with firms in Germany andnlikely elsewhere in Europe to purchase enough high-strengthnaluminum tubing to manufacture up to 4,000 gas centrifuge rotorntubes for uranium enrichment, Western official sources monitoringnNorth Korean nuclear equipment procurement said last week.