{"id":12432,"date":"2026-06-04T04:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12432"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:05:14","slug":"north-korea-announces-opening-of-new-nuclear-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12432","title":{"rendered":"North Korea announces opening of new nuclear facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>North Korea on Thursday unveiled a new facility to produce nuclear bomb fuels, with leader Kim Jong Un announcing plans to bolster the country&#8217;s nuclear forces &#8220;at an exponential rate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The official Korean Central News Agency said the facility used &#8220;more sophisticated technology&#8221; but didn&#8217;t provide further details, such as where it is located and when it began its operation. State media photos showed what appeared to be a large centrifuge hall, indicating the plant is likely used to enrich weapons-grade uranium.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure of the new factory is in line with Kim&#8217;s repeated vows to expand its <span class=\"link\">nuclear weapons program<\/span> to cope with what he called escalating U.S.-led military threats.<\/p>\n<p>KCNA said Kim visited the nuclear facility on Wednesday to learn about its operation indices and its long-term production plan.<\/p>\n<p>KCNA quoted Kim as saying the urgency for bolstering up the country&#8217;s nuclear war deterrent, both in quality and quantity, has grown because of confrontations with &#8220;the most ferocious enemies,&#8221; an apparent reference to the United States and South Korea. Kim cited other unspecified threats and crises as a need to boost North Korea&#8217;s nuclear capability, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim claimed that North Korea&#8217;s weapons-grade nuclear materials production capacity has more than doubled compared with five years ago, according to KCNA. There are virtually no ways to independently verify his claim.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting at the facility, Kim said that he and other top officials &#8220;confirmed the order of priority for implementing the ambitious future plan designed to beef up our state&#8217;s nuclear forces at an exponential rate,&#8221; KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>KCNA photos showed Kim walking through narrow aisles lined with dense rows of silver tubes and pipes, in what appeared to be a centrifuge hall. Another image showed him speaking with senior officials in a meeting room, where a blurred graphic depicting a cone-shaped object was spread across a table. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear whether the graphic showed a warhead design.<\/p>\n<p>The facility&#8217;s revelation came less than two years after North Korea <span class=\"link\">unveiled<\/span> another covert uranium-enrichment plant in September 2024, in its first public disclosure of such a facility since showing one at the country&#8217;s main Yongbyon nuclear complex to visiting American scholars in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Kim delivered a similar message during his visit to that facility in 2024, calling for an increase in the number of centrifuges to &#8220;exponentially&#8221; expand the country&#8217;s nuclear arsenal and urging the development of more advanced centrifuge systems.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said that North Korea was operating a total of four uranium enrichment facilities including the Yongbyon complex, and that they were running everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear weapons can be built using either highly enriched uranium or plutonium, and North Korea has facilities to produce both at Yongbyon.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea <span class=\"link\">has focused on<\/span> enlarging and modernizing its nuclear arsenal since Kim&#8217;s high-stakes diplomacy with President Trump collapsed in 2019. Kim has since rebuffed U.S. and South Korean offers to restart diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>In April, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that his agency had confirmed &#8220;a rapid increase&#8221; in activities at nuclear facilities in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the U.S. Treasury Department <span class=\"link\">imposed sanctions<\/span> on six people and two companies it accused of aiding North Korea in a scheme in which <span class=\"link\">remote IT workers<\/span> were used to defraud businesses and funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into North Korea&#8217;s nuclear weapons programs.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials estimated the scheme brought in nearly $800 million in 2024 alone.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that same month, North Korean state media <span class=\"link\">broadcast images<\/span> that showed Kim inspecting a naval destroyer and its weapons systems, saying he intended to build &#8220;the strongest navy&#8221; in the country&#8217;s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Experts speculated that the purpose of the images may have been to portray North Korean strength in the immediate days after the U.S. began its strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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