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North Korea operating new nuclear plant
NUCLEAR-ARMED North Korea has stalled operating a new plant inside its uranium enrichment complex, boosting its capacity to generate fuel that could be used to make atomic weapons, a report said today.
"Infrared cameras used by South Korean and US intelligence authorities have detected heal that was emitted when gas centrifuges in the new plant began operating," the Joongang llbo daily quoted an unnamed official in charge of handling North Korean intelligence. The North started building the new facility inside the Yongbyon nuclear complex in 2012 and began operating it recently after completing construction, the report said.
"We have to monitor a little longer to see if the new plant started producing at full blast but it is our assessment that it is running," the newspaper cited the source as saving. In August, the Institute for Science and International Security said satd Lite images of Yong by on suggested continued production at the centrifuge plant of the North's main nuclear complex.
Pyongyang says the plant is dedicated to producing low-enriched uranium for an underconstruclion Light Water Reactor (LWR), but experts suspect that the final goal is weaponsgrade uranium.
"Infrared cameras used by South Korean and US intelligence authorities have detected heal that was emitted when gas centrifuges in the new plant began operating," the Joongang llbo daily quoted an unnamed official in charge of handling North Korean intelligence. The North started building the new facility inside the Yongbyon nuclear complex in 2012 and began operating it recently after completing construction, the report said.
"We have to monitor a little longer to see if the new plant started producing at full blast but it is our assessment that it is running," the newspaper cited the source as saving. In August, the Institute for Science and International Security said satd Lite images of Yong by on suggested continued production at the centrifuge plant of the North's main nuclear complex.
Pyongyang says the plant is dedicated to producing low-enriched uranium for an underconstruclion Light Water Reactor (LWR), but experts suspect that the final goal is weaponsgrade uranium.
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