Yongbyon - Nuclear Weapons Information

North Korea said Wednesday it is making rapid progress in enriching uranium and building a new reactor -- projects which experts say could give it a second way to make nuclear weapons."The construction of experimental LWR (light-water reactor) and the low-enriched uranium ...

North Korea will soon start operating a new home-built nuclear reactor, its official news agency said Thursday in a commentary one year after Pyongyang publicly disclosed the plant."The day is near at hand when a light-water reactor entirely based on domestic resources ...

North Korea is rapidly completing what it says will be a light water reactor despite growing concerns over safety following Japan's quake-triggered nuclear disaster, news reports said Friday.The speed of construction has reportedly sparked fresh safety concerns in neighbouring South Korea, where ...

SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday it suspects the North has been secretly enriching uranium at more locations besides its main nuclear site -- which could mean it has more material for building nuclear bombs.South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been secretly enriching uranium that could be used to build nuclear weapons at three or four undisclosed locations, a South Korean intelligence official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.The facilities are in addition to the one ...

North Korea is restoring facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, the source of weapons-grade plutonium in the past, South Korea's defence ministry said Tuesday."North Korea is restoring nuclear facilities and continuing maintenance activities at Yongbyon," a spokesman quoted Defence Minister Kim Tae-Young ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the mercurial state more material to produce atomic arms.The announcement comes after the reclusive North, ...

North Korea has completed reprocessing spent fuel rods to make more fuel for nuclear weapons, official media said Tuesday.The country had " successfully completed reprocessing spent fuel rods by the end of August" at its Yongbyon complex, the North's Korean Central News ...

North Korea Tuesday accused the United States of stepping up production and deployment of " bunker-buster" bombs targeting its nuclear sites.The United States is deploying the bombs "to attack underground military targets and nuclear facilities" in the North, the ruling communist party ...

Driving northeast from seoul, I follow the course of the sinuous Han River, past harvested rice fields, up into steep, forested hills. "This country was unified for 13 centuries before 1945, when it was divided as an expedient by the United States ...

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Topic: Yongbyon

N. Korea says progress made on uranium production

North Korea says new reactor to start soon

Fast progress of N.Korea reactor alarms Seoul: media

South Korea suspects North has more uranium sites

North Korea operating 3-4 more uranium sites: report

N.Korea restoring nuclear facilities

North Korea says has made more arms-grade plutonium

NKorea completes nuclear fuel reprocessing: KCNA

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