North Korean is expanding nuclear enrichment facility, experts say

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Satellite images show the uranium enrichment plant at the Yongbyon complex has expanded and could increase weapons-grade uranium production at the site by as much as 25 per cent.

Recent satellite images show North Korea is expanding a uranium enrichment plant at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, a sign it is intent on boosting the production of bomb materials, experts say.The expansion indicates North Korea is planning to increase production of weapons-grade uranium

Newly acquired space could accommodate up to 1,000 additional centrifuges to make highly enriched uraniumThe assessment comes after North Korea recently raised tensions with its first missile tests in six months amid long-dormant nuclear disarmament negotiations with the United States. "The expansion of the enrichment plant probably indicates that North Korea plans to increase its production of weapons-grade uranium at the Yongbyon site by as much as 25 per cent," Jeffrey Lewis and two other experts at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey said in a report.

The report said the photos taken by satellite imagery company Maxar showed construction in an area adjoining the uranium enrichment plant at Yongbyon.North Korea cleared trees and prepared the ground for constructionThe report said a second image taken on September 14 showed a wall erected to enclose the area, work on a foundation and panels removed from the side of the enrichment building to provide access to the newly enclosed area.

Nuclear weapons can be built using either highly enriched uranium or plutonium, and North Korea has facilities to produce both at Yongbyon.

 

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Perhaps it's time the west started recognising these countries instead of slapping trade sanctions on them and threatening them. Our treatment of NK during the '50s war, never taught in school history lessons, was nothing more than barbaric.

More BS war mongering propaganda

North Korea is a Chinese proxy. We all know that.

Can't be anywhere near safe, look how crappy it looks. might be a problem that eventually solves itself.

Can't be anywhere near safe, look how crappy it looks.

Please fix your typo. North Korean?

Are they going for nuclear subs too like the Anglo elders in power now?

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