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07-16-2017, 05:36 AM
SEOUL: New images of **rth Korea’s main nuclear facility show that the isolated regime has apparently produced more plutonium for its ******* programme than previously thought, a US monitor said, as tensions soar over Pyongyang’s ambitions.
The respected 38 **rth website, a monitoring project linked to Johns Hopkins university, said on Friday that thermal imagery of the Yongbyon nuclear complex appeared to show that Pyongyang had reprocessed spent fuel rods at least twice between last September and June this year.
“The Radiochemical Laboratory operated intermittently and there have apparently been at least two unreported reprocessing campaigns to produce an undetermined amount of plutonium that can further increase **rth Korea’s nuclear ******* stockpile,” it said.
**rth Korea deactivated the Yongbyon reactor in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament accord, but began re**vating it after Pyongyang’s third nuclear test in 2013.
Increased thermal activity was also **ted at Yongbyon’s uranium enrichment facility but it was unclear whether this indicated a push to increase supplies, possibly for *******, or if it was part of maintenance operations, the website said.
The researchers also said that analysis of thermal patterns from a probable isotope/tritium production facility at the site suggested that the plant was likely **t producing tritium.
Tritium is a key component used for making sophisticated thermonuclear ******* with far greater yields than those made only of plutonium and uranium.
**rth Korea has conducted five underground nuclear tests since 2006, and carried out its first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week.
**rth Korea’s foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday “the resounding success” of the test demonstrated Pyongyang’s ability to “annihilate the US by a single blow to the very heart of its mainland in case it fails to act with discretion”.
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The respected 38 **rth website, a monitoring project linked to Johns Hopkins university, said on Friday that thermal imagery of the Yongbyon nuclear complex appeared to show that Pyongyang had reprocessed spent fuel rods at least twice between last September and June this year.
“The Radiochemical Laboratory operated intermittently and there have apparently been at least two unreported reprocessing campaigns to produce an undetermined amount of plutonium that can further increase **rth Korea’s nuclear ******* stockpile,” it said.
**rth Korea deactivated the Yongbyon reactor in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament accord, but began re**vating it after Pyongyang’s third nuclear test in 2013.
Increased thermal activity was also **ted at Yongbyon’s uranium enrichment facility but it was unclear whether this indicated a push to increase supplies, possibly for *******, or if it was part of maintenance operations, the website said.
The researchers also said that analysis of thermal patterns from a probable isotope/tritium production facility at the site suggested that the plant was likely **t producing tritium.
Tritium is a key component used for making sophisticated thermonuclear ******* with far greater yields than those made only of plutonium and uranium.
**rth Korea has conducted five underground nuclear tests since 2006, and carried out its first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week.
**rth Korea’s foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday “the resounding success” of the test demonstrated Pyongyang’s ability to “annihilate the US by a single blow to the very heart of its mainland in case it fails to act with discretion”.
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