Jungmin Kang

Kang is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and is currently a visiting scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His recent research interests include multinational approaches to uranium enrichment and spent fuel management, as well as verification and dismantlement of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

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Articles by Jungmin Kang

1 January 2012
Features

Where nuclear safety and security meet

Duyeon KimJungmin Kang
Opinion
4 May 2011
Nuclear WeaponsNuclear Energy

Five steps to prevent another Fukushima

Jungmin Kang

The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been an ongoing disaster since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. According to an estimate by the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, by April 27 approximately 55 percent of the fuel in reactor unit 1 had melted, along with 35 percent of the fuel in unit 2, and 30 percent of the fuel in unit 3; and overheated spent fuels in the storage pools of units 3 and 4 probably were also damaged.

1 May 2011
Feature

South Korea in focus: The politics of spent fuel storage and disposal

Jungmin Kang
Opinion
12 June 2009
Nuclear Weapons

The North Korean nuclear test: Seoul goes on the defensive

Jungmin Kang

On May 25, two years and seven months after its first nuclear test, North Korea conducted its second nuclear test at Phunggye-ri, in the northeastern part of the country, which is close to the East Sea and about 375 kilometers northeast of Pyongyang. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the second test took place about 6 kilometers west of the 2006 test.

1 January 2009
Feature

Redirecting North Korea's Nuclear Workers

Jungmin Kang
Threat reduction programs with former Soviet states can serve as models to create new, peaceful jobs for the North's cadre of nuclear scientists and bomb makers.
1 January 2006
Feature

Grid-Locked

David von HippelJungmin KangTatsujiro SuzukiRichard TanterScott Bruce
North Korea needs energy. But can the parties negotiating a solution to the nuclear crisis come up with a viable way to plug in the North?
1 January 2005
Feature

South Korea's Nuclear Surprise

Jungmin KangLi BinTatsujiro SuzukiRichard Tanter
As more and more countries adopt the IAEA's Additional Protocol, all kinds of nuclear secrets will come spilling out. Currently under the microscope: South Korea.
1 May 2001
Feature

Plutonium Disposal, the Third Way

Allison MacfarlaneFrank von HippelJungmin KangRobert Nelson
If all the “excess” plutonium from dismantled weapons were measured in units of 8 kilograms—the amount the International Atomic Energy Agency considers sufficient to make a Nagasaki-type bomb—then there is enough excess weapons plutonium to build about 9,000 bombs, and enough plutonium separated fr