The images suggest significant activity is taking place at the Yongbyon nuclear complex.
New satellite images suggest North Korea is producing plutonium and uranium, a report says.The images, captured by the commercial imaging company Maxar and published by the Daily NK, show significant activity taking place at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, a uranium enrichment plant in North Pyongan Province that the U.S. has tried to shut down by exerting pressure on Pyongyang through economic sanctions.
Jeffrey Lewis, a weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told CNN at the time that the expansion could allow North Korea to increase production of weapons-grade nuclear material by as much as 25 percent.
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