BRINK OF WWIII? North Korea RESTARTS nuclear facility testing Trump’s vow to retaliate
NORTH Korea looks to be cranking up its nuclear machine as chilling photos suggest its main plutonium facility is fully operational as Donald Trump vowed to deploy missiles ready to crush Pyongyang.
By REBECCA FLOOD
Express.co.uk
Thu, Feb 2, 2017
Despotic leader Kim Jong-un frequently flaunts its nuclear capabilities in a show of strength against its neighbour South Korea and the West.
And now satellite photos taken of the secretive regime appear to confirm many peoples’ worst fear; that the Yongbyon nuclear facility is up and running.
The move comes as Donald Trump’s new defence secretary, Jim Mattis, confirmed they would be deploying a US missile defence system, known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), in South Korea later this year.
Operations at the 5 MWe plutonium production reactor at the Nuclear Scientific Research Center in Yongbyon are thought to have resumed after tell-tale signs were spotted in aerial photos.
Images taken last month indicated Pyongyang had restarted the reactor, following the removal of spent fuel rods.
They were unloaded for a reprocessing campaign to produce additional plutonium for its highly controversial nuclear programme and weapons stockpile.
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