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More Evidence That North Korea Has Restarted Its 5 MWe Reactor
New commercial satellite imagery from September 19, 2013 provides further evidence that North Korea has restarted its 5 MWe plutonium production reactor located at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific...
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What to Make of North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Test?
Image: Shutterstock On September 9, 2016, seismic stations around the world picked up the unmistakable signals of another North Korean underground nuclear test in the vicinity of Punggye-ri. The...
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North Korea’s Fissile Material Production: How to Know It’s All Gone
Before the Hanoi Summit, President Trump suggested in remarks that he was in no rush for denuclearization as long as North Korea wasn’t testing missiles or nuclear weapons. It’s a good thing, too,...
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Growing Activity at North Korea’s Experimental Light Water Reactor
Recent commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center indicates a high level of activity around the complex. The 5 MWe Reactor continues to operate, and...
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Possible Refueling at Yongbyon’s 5 MWe Reactor
Recent commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center indicates that cooling water discharge—observed with a few short interruptions at the 5 MWe reactor over...
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Siegfried Hecker on the New Russia-DPRK Relationship and Nuclear Cooperation
(Source: Korean Central News Agency) On Sunday, Kim Jong Un returned triumphantly from a tour of Russia’s Far East. That trip has almost certainly set the stage for dangerous changes in Northeast Asia....
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Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center: An Overview of Changes at the...
Commercial satellite imagery of the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center from February to September 2023 indicates substantial activity has taken place to renovate the site’s uranium conversion...
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