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In November 2010, North Korea showed the previously undetected uranium facility in Yongbyon to U.S. expert Siegfried Hecker, who said he was "stunned" at how modern it appeared. The advance could give the impoverished country a second route to producing nuclear weapons. The North, which carried out nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, has had a separate plutonium program for decades. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in a 11-page report obtained by Reuters Friday, said it had interviewed Hecker and carried out a technical review of his observations during his visit to North Korea. "The layout of the centrifuge cascade and the size of the centrifuge casings observed by (Hecker's) group were broadly consistent with a design which has been disseminated through a clandestine supply network," the report said. It added that "information available to the agency indicates that some of the technology and information required for a uranium enrichment program was acquired through" such a clandestine network. Nuclear experts have previously said the North almost certainly needed help to obtain components secretly for an enrichment site from several sources over many years. They say the dismantling of a network run by the Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan some seven years ago has not ended the black market in the technology needed for such plants, and that some people linked to that operation may still be active. In the world's biggest nuclear proliferation scandal, Khan confessed in 2004 to selling nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Libya. Centrifuges are finely calibrated cylindrical devices that spin at supersonic speed to increase the fissile element in uranium so that it can serve as fuel for nuclear power plants or, if refined to a much higher degree, for atomic bombs. 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