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North Korea publishes images of uranium enrichment facilities for the first time

2024-09-13 09:43:19Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

North Korea publishes images of uranium enrichment facilities for the first time

North Korean authorities released today for the first time images of uranium enrichment facilities on the occasion of a visit there by the country's leader Kim Jong Un. Pyongyang, which conducted its first nuclear test in 2006 while under UN Security Council sanctions over its nuclear program, has never disclosed its facilities until now. Highly enriched uranium, necessary for the production of nuclear warheads, is produced in these facilities thanks to high-speed centrifuges. Kim visited the Nuclear Weapons Institute and a nuclear material production base for the military, the official KCNA news agency reported, without specifying where those facilities were located or when the visit took place.

The North Korean leader "stressed the need to further increase the number of centrifuges in order to exponentially increase the number of nuclear weapons for self-defense," added the agency, which broadcast images showing Kim inspecting rows of centrifuges.

The UN has imposed sanctions on North Korea's nuclear program, but it is flouting those bans thanks largely to the support of its allies China and Russia. South Korea, for its part, complained that Pyongyang "disclosed the existence of a uranium enrichment facility" and that it had increased production of materials for building nuclear weapons.

"This is a flagrant violation of many UN Security Council resolutions," said a spokesman for the Unification Ministry. The release of these images is intended to send "a strong message to the next administration" of the US that "it will be impossible to denuclearize North Korea," as explained by Hong Min, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification.

"It is also a message to other countries to recognize North Korea as a nuclear state," he added. The object shown "is very likely to be at Kangchon," a secret nuclear complex near Pyongyang, Hong noted.

However, he assessed that it is highly unlikely that North Korea will proceed with a new nuclear test anytime soon. According to information released Wednesday by 38 North, a North Korea analysis program run by the Stimson Center, the central facility where Pyongyang conducts nuclear tests was damaged by repeated floods that hit the country in late July.

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