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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

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North Korea's 'Megaton Twins': How two nuclear scientists made Kim Jong-un's nuclear arsenal '18 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb'

Kim Jong-un can be seen addressing Ri Hong-sop while Hong Sung-mu is the man to the far left Mr Madden said there were a number of people who'd contributed to North Korea's nuclear weapons over the years. 
But he said Ri Hong-sop, the head of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Institute, and Hong Sung-mu, were the 'key people' now. 
He said the duo most likely got an academic grounding in the former Soviet Union, perhaps at the Yuzhnoye Design Office in Ukraine, before returning to the North. 
Back home, they worked at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center – where Mr Hong was made chief engineer and Mr Ri, director – in the 1980s. 
Now they're among North Korea's elite and were guests of honour at a performance in September celebrating the regime's nuclear scientists. 


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