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Sponsored by the Technology Center for Nuclear Control and the Korea Institute for National Unification
2008
January 24, 2008----Slowly, but Surely, Pyongyang Is Moving
By David Albright and Jacqueline Shire
Op-Ed in the Washington Post
January 24, 2008
January 2008 --ISIS Issue Brief:
Rev. 1
North Korea's Plutonium Declaration: A Starting Point for an Initial Verification Process
By David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline Shire
January 10, 2008
2007
October 2007 --USIP Working Paper:
Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilities
by David Albright and Paul Brannan
October 25, 2007
Korea Working Group:
The U.S. Institute of Peace's Korea Working Group (KWG) commissioned this Working Paper in order to facilitate a better understanding of nuclear disablement. The KWG regularly brings together the leading North Korea watchers from the government and think tank communities to discuss pressing policy issues in the political, security, social, and economic fields. The KWG is the only group of its kind in Washington, D.C. The Chair of the Korea Working Group is Ambassador Richard Solomon, President of USIP. The Director is John Park.
July 2007 --Monitoring and Verification in the DPRK
By Director General
July 3, 2007
March 2007 --ISIS Report on North Korea: Phased International Cooperation with North Korea's Civil Nuclear Programs, By David Albright, March 19, 2007.
February 2007 --ISIS Report on North Korea: North Korea's Alleged Large-Scale Enrichment Plant: Yet Another Questionable Extrapolation Based on Aluminum Tubes, by David Albright, February 23, 2007.
February 2007 --ISIS Event at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Report from North Korea: David Albright and Joel Wit will report on their findings from their recent trip to North Korea including an updated in-depth analysis of North Korea's separated plutonium stockpile and uranium enrichment program. They will discuss issues surrounding the implementation of the recent Six-Party agreement in Beijing as well as how confidence building measures and cooperative threat reduction initiatives can be applied to eliminating North Korea's nuclear program.
10:00 AM, February 21, 2007
Choate Room
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
February 2007 --ISIS Report on North Korea: The North Korean Plutonium Stock, February 2007, David Albright and Paul Brannan February 20, 2007.
February 2007 --ISIS Report: North Korean Plutonium Stock, David Albright and Paul Brannan, February 20, 2007
February 2007 --US Korea Institute at SAIS: Report from Pyongyang: North Korea's Nuclear Future, Lecture by David Albright and Joel Wit on their findings from their recent trip to North Korea, 5:30 PM, February 14, 2007
2006
October 2006 --ISIS Imagery Brief: North Korean Site After Nuclear Test, David Albright and Paul Brannan, October 17, 2006
October 2006 -- ISIS Imagery Brief: Suspected North Korean Nuclear Test Site, David Albright and Paul Brannan, October 10, 2006.
June 2006 -- ISIS Report on the DPRK: The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2006, David Albright and Paul Brannan, June 26, 2006.
See Press Release
January 2006 -- Dismantling the DPRK's Nuclear Weapons Program:
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, January 2006.
2005
September 2005 -- New satellite photos showing the 5MWe reactor at Yongbyon with a steam plume, indicating that it is again operational and the construction site for the 50MWe reactor showing some new activity at the site. Posted September 14, 2005.
September 2005 -- ISIS Issue Brief: The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2005, September 7, 2005. (.pdf file)
September 2005 -- Images of the 5 MWe Reactor which appears to be not operating and the 50 MWe reactor prior to the reported restart of construction from June 2005.
April 2005 -- Images of 5 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon Nuclear Site from January and April 2005.
2004
October 2004 -- ISIS Issue Brief: The South Korean Laser Isotope Separation Experience, by Mark Gorwitz, Special Contributor to ISIS Online, September 27, 2004. Revised: October 5, 2004
June 2004 -- Verifiable, Irreversible, Cooperative Dismantlement of the DPRK's Nuclear Weapons Program", presented at the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management Annual Conference 2004.
June 2004 -- Verified, Irreversible, Cooperative Dismantlement of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program
2003
November 2003 -- Focus on the 50MWe Reactor, satellite photos of Yongbyon.
September 2003 -- New ISIS briefs on North Korea's nuclear program.
June 2003 -- "Cooperative Verified Dismantlement of Nuclear Programs: An Eye Toward North Korea", presented at the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management Annual Conference 2003.
March 2003 -- Satellite photo showing the 5MWe reactor at Yongbyon with a steam plume, indicating that it is now operational; close-ups of the cooling tower showing the change in status between February and March 2003; and the reprocessing facility showing no obvious signs of activity.
January 2003 -- New ISIS assessments of current and future North Korean nuclear capabilities.
2002
November 2002 -- ISIS Issue Brief -- Sorting out conflicting reports of North Korean intentions, November 18, 2002.
February 2002 -- North Korea: It's Taking Too Long, by David Albright and Holly Higgins. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
2001
May 2001 -- David Albright's remarks before the U.S.-Korea Working Group at the Brookings Institute.
March 2001 -- Stay the Course on North Korea, an ISIS Policy Brief by Holly Higgins, urging the Bush administration to continue to engage North Korea, particularly with respect to the 1994 Agreed Framework. The press release for the policy brief can be found here.
February 2001 -- The Epilogue of Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle is now available on the ISIS website. This short chapter contains ISIS's policy recommendations that would contribute to the implementation of the Agreed Framework and the broader goal of creating a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
2000
December 2000 -- A summary of David Albright's remarks at a Carnegie Endowment roundtable about North Korea's nuclear program can be found here on the Carnegie Endowment's web site. More information and resouces about this event can be found here.
October 2000-- Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle, a 324 pp. book (plus index) that describes the decade-long effort to ensure that North Korea does not have nuclear weapons.
The book was released on October 31, 2000 at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Remarks by David Albright and Kevin O'Neill are available online.
Chapters available on line include:
Prologue by David Albright.
- Chapter 3 -- An Overhead Tour: The Yongbyon Nuclear Site by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
Epilogue by David Albright, Holly Higgins, and Kevin O'Neill. This short chapter contains the key findings and policy recommendations of the book.
Appendix 3 -- Setting the Record Straight About Plutonium Production in North Korea by David Albright and Holly Higgins
Appendix 5 -- Chronology of Events Related to the U.S.-North Korean Agreed Framework compiled by Holly Higgins (updated and expanded from the version in the book.)
October 20, 2000-- Remarks by David Albright at a press conference hosted by the Arms Control Association prior to Secretary Madeleine Albright's trip to North Korea. (David Albright spoke third at the press conference, so you will need to scroll down the page.)
1999
October 27, 1999-- Light Water Reactors and Nuclear Weapons in North Korea: Let's Be Fair With Our Comparisons. Issue brief by David Albright and Holly Higgins. A revised version of this brief was published as Appendix 3 in Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle.
1998 and earlier
September/October, 1994-- "How Much Plutonium Does North Korea Have?" By David Albright. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
August 1, 1994-- North Korea's Corroding Fuel. Issue brief by David Albright.
June 6, 1994-- The North Korean Nuclear Program: Unresolved Issues. Fact Sheet by David Albright and Kevin O'Neill.
Publications in other Journals and Newspapers:
*North Korean Plutonium Production. By David Albright. Science and Global Security, 1994, Volume 5.
*North Korea's Corroding Fuel. By David Albright. Science and Global Security, 1994, Volume 5.
* For copies of these articles please contact the publisher.