Is Do Sang Rok The Father Of North Korea’s Nuclear Weapon Program?

Do Sang Rok – The Father Of North Korea’s Nuclear Weapon Program? -- NK News

Accounts suggest that Pyongyang acquired scientists for developing nuclear program decades before publicly acknowledging it.

“If North Korea’s claim of having conducted a nuclear test on October 9 is proven true, two questions stand out: What level of nuclear technology does the North possess, and how did North Korea, with only a per-capita gross domestic product of less than US$2,000, nurture the human capital necessary to go nuclear?”
The Hankyoreh, October 14, 2006

Like much of Kim Jong Un’s regime, the genesis of Pyongyang’s nuclear program is shrouded in secrecy, but accounts suggest that a former South Korean scientist named Do Sang-rok was instrumental in its beginnings.

Though nuclear activities in North Korea are widely assumed to have begun in the 1950s, certain programs – like the World War II-era hunt for nuclear materials by Korea’s then-colonial overlords Japan, and later by the Soviet Union during their occupation of northern Korea – began at least a decade earlier.

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My Comment: A look at the history of North Korea's nuclear program. A must read for all North Korean watchers.