It's the North's first public disclosure of a uranium enrichment facility since it showed one at Yongbyon to visiting American scholars in 2010.
It's unclear if the site is at the North's main Yongbyon nuclear complex, but it's the North's first public disclosure of a uranium enrichment facility since it showed one at Yongbyon to visiting American scholars in 2010.
KCNA said that Kim went around the control room of the uranium enrichment base and a construction site that would expand its capacity for producing nuclear weapons. It said Kim ordered officials to push forward the introduction of a new-type centrifuge, which has reached its completion stage. In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech, marking the country's 76th founding anniversary in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.
"For analysts outside the country, the released images will provide a valuable source of information for rectifying our assumptions about how much material North Korea may have amassed to date," said Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace."Overall, we should not assume that North Korea will be as constrained as it once was by fissile material limitations.
Estimates on how many nuclear bombs North Korea can add every year vary, ranging from six to as much as 18.This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test firing of Pulhwasal-3-31 in North Korea Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.
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