North Korea’s Yongbyon facility has a decades-long history marred by fatal accidents, radiation poisoning and human experimentation, one defector with working experience of it says.
In 2002 a group called 'Rescue the North Korean People Urgent Action Network' interviewed defector Lee Mi (a pseudonym) about her work as a researcher at the secretive Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center in the 1990’s.
North Korea’s Yongbyon facility has a decades-long history marred by fatal accidents, radiation poisoning and human experimentation, one defector with working experience of it says.
In 2002 a group called 'Rescue the North Korean People Urgent Action Network' interviewed defector Lee Mi (a pseudonym) about her work as a researcher at the secretive Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center in the 1990’s.
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