U.N. nuclear watchdog sees indications of plutonium work in North Korea

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Reuters

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog has seen indications in North Korea of possible reprocessing work to separate plutonium from spent reactor fuel that could be used in nuclear weapons, the head of the agency said on Monday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has not had access to the secretive state since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009. The country then pressed ahead with its nuclear weapons programme and soon resumed nuclear testing. Its last detonation of a nuclear weapon was in 2017.

The Vienna-based IAEA now monitors North Korean activities at sites including the main nuclear complex at Yongbyon from afar, mainly using satellite imagery.

In a quarterly update to a meeting of his agency's 35-nation Board of Governors, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said steam had continued to emerge from a plant serving a reprocessing lab at Pyongyang since he reported it billowing at the last meeting.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-nuclear-watchdog-sees-indications-of-plutonium-work-in-north-korea/ar-AAKMOum?ocid=NL_ENUS_D1_20210607_8_2

[WHITT]

1. Ya Mean

Donnie's love letters with Kimmee didn't work?

Huh.

[Submariner]

2. Until the oppressed of North Korea rise up

and physically overthrow Kim and his sister, this paranoid family of two is going to keep that part of Asia on the nuclear brink, because fear is all they have.

Personally, I would like to see a hit squad like Mossad had to take out the 72 Olympic terrorists in the years after the massacre. Quiet, out of sight, and effective.

[soryang]

3. They simply don't know

this is all speculation.

"The duration of this operation is consistent with the time required for a reprocessing campaign at the Radiochemical Laboratory. It is not, however, possible to confirm that reprocessing is taking place," he added.

The exact role or function of the facility at Kangson is still unknown. Some analysts believe it is more likely to be a missile fabrication facility. This is what happens when "you gotta walk away" as the orange idiot put it. Then you just don't know.

Better report at 38North:

North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center: Satellite Update
BY: PETER MAKOWSKY, FRANK PABIAN, JACK LIU AND OLLI HEINONEN
MAY 28, 2021SATELLITE IMAGERY

https://www.38north.org/2021/05/north-koreas-yongbyon-nuclear-scientific-research-center-satellite-update/