Japan develops atomic bombs in Heungnam and seeks to turn the world around

 In order to reverse the situation of World War II, Japan developed an atomic bomb in Heungnam (now Hamheung, Hamgyeongnam-do), North Korea, and even completed an explosion test in the sea, drawing attention.      MBC's "Now I Can Say It" will make the claim in the "Unfinished Secret Project - Japan's Atomic Bomb Development" (planned by Kim Hwan-kyun, directed by Park Gun-sik), which will air on the 12th.      The reason why the production team raised Japan's "Development and Experiment of North Korea's Heungnam Atomic Bomb" was because a confidential information report by the Allied Command (GHQ) was discovered in 1947 by Wilcox (author of "Secret of War" who was a former U.S. journalist. The report, written by U.S. lieutenant colonel Cecil at the time and called the Cecil Report, records that Japan had developed an atomic bomb in Heungnam, North Korea during World War II.      The Cecil Report is based on an article published in the U.S. newspaper "Atlanta" on October 3, 1946. "This information was obtained while David Snell, an agent of the U.S. Criminal Investigation Agency, was interrogating Wakabayashi, a Japanese officer, shortly after the end of the war," the Atlanta Shimbun reported at the time. The Wakabayashi newspaper, later named the Snell Report, said, "In the early morning of August 12, 1945, there was a huge explosion off the coast of Heungnam, accompanied by flash and mushroom clouds." In the end, the U.S. government conducted a full reinvestigation of Heungnam immediately after these reports, and concluded that Japan developed an atomic bomb in Heungnam the following year and completed a secret experiment.      In addition to atomic bombs in Heungnam, the Allied Command's intelligence report also states that Japan has been carrying out production of German-made long-range missiles V1 and V2 under the code name "NZ" that terrorized the entire UK in 1944. It was later discovered that the code name NZ was the same name as Hitler's atomic bomb development plan.      The production team also added testimony from those who witnessed the production plant in Heungnam at the time. Moon Bong-soo, a student at Heungnam Technical School at the time, said, "Unlike ordinary factories, it was built of concrete on all sides like nuclear power plants," adding, "I asked other people and heard that they were making high-performance bombs."      Choi Ki-sun, a factory researcher at the time, also won the postwar Nobel Prize, and Hideki Yugawa, a key member of Japan's atomic bomb development, testified that he frequently appeared in Heungnam with a group of people.      In addition, Leon Thompson, an American who was a member of the Atomic Bomb Investigation Team of the Allied Command shortly after the end of the war, said in an interview with the production team, "I could see the atomic bomb designation through the Japanese, and I can't remember the exact name, but I heard that the Japanese military built the largest facility somewhere in North Korea.      Why did Japan set up an atomic bomb development plant in Heungnam, North Korea, not in its own country, which is the best place to develop atomic bombs under all conditions such as Heungnam and electricity? The production team is once again looking back at the situation in mainland Japan and the geographical conditions of Heungnam.      After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan continued to win consecutive wars against the United States, but lost its leadership in the Battle of Midway in May 1942. In a hurry, Japan needed special measures to reverse the war at once, and the military ordered Dr. Yoshio Nishina, the top master of Japanese science, to develop an atomic bomb.      In response, Dr. Nishina, led by the University of Tokyo's Chemical Research Institute, carried out a plan to develop an atomic bomb called "Niho Research" in secret, and finally succeeded in separating uranium 235 from uranium raw materials through particle accelerators. Uranium was imported in large quantities into submarines through Germany.      However, when the U.S. launched an air strike on mainland Japan in March 1945, the situation was not favorable. The Institute of Chemical Technology, which was the center of atomic bomb development, was also destroyed by indiscriminate air strikes by B-29 bombers. In preparation for this, however, Japan built a separate research center in the village of Ishigawa, four hours away from Tokyo, and continued its research.      On the other hand, Japan has turned to the excitement of North Korea. At that time, Heungnam was a large-scale industrial city such as Pohang and Changwon. Heungnam peaked in the 1940s and had a total site of 6 million pyeong with 45,000 employees. Heungnam also developed the Yalu River water system, allowing 3.2 million kilowatts of electricity to be used. This was more than half of the power usage in mainland Japan. Electricity was also a prerequisite for the development of atomic bombs.      The U.S. also paid attention to this point, scouting the Heungnam area several times from February 1945 and targeted it as a major attack target, and later, when Heungnam entered the sphere of influence of North Korea and the Soviet Union, it devastated Heungnam during the Korean War.      Director Park Kun-sik said, "Japan is the first and biggest victim of nuclear radiation on earth, but as Prime Minister Sato won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974, we are now a country that can make nuclear weapons in 90 days."