How North Korea Got the Bomb.

This article traces the development of nuclear weapons by North Korea. Few North Koreans have suffered more directly for Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions than Kimchaek University's class of '62. Kim Jong Il's bomb is one of the most urgent problems facing the Bush administration--and Pyongyang clearly likes the notoriety. It sounds plausible when you consider the pace of other developing nations' nuclear programs--as in Pakistan, which appears to have shared nuclear expertise with North Korea. The late scientist and inventor Lee Sung Ki, called the first father of North Korea's nuclear program, earned a degree in chemical engineering at Kyoto Imperial University. Later, back in North Korea, a team of Soviet experts helped the cadre of Korean scientists build an experimental 2-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon that went online in 1965 and jump-started North Korea's nuclear research.