This story erroneously claimed that the U.S. National Security Agency collaborated with Chinese intelligence to uncover North Korea’s uranium enrichment program. That was based on a misreading of an internal NSA document. The Diplomat regrets the error.
The Koreas
China Helped Reveal N. Korean Cheating on Denuclearization: NSA Leaks
An IAEA inspector in the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in North Korea (2008).
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