Times: NKorea secretly builds new nuclear facility

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea secretly and with unusual speed has built a large new facility to enrich uranium, says an American nuclear scientist who visited the site, according to The New York Times.

The scientist, Siegfried Hecker, told the newspaper in an interview that he was "stunned" by the sophistication of the enrichment facility which included hundreds of newly installed centrifuges. The facility has what he described as an "ultra-modern control room."

Hecker, a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, privately informed the White House of his findings a few days ago, said the newspaper in an account published late …