Rapid improvements noticed at N-Korea's Yongbyon nuclear site: Monitoring website
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North Korea is carrying out rapid improvements at its Yongbyon nuclear research facility, monitoring website "38 North" said today. The website said North Korea not only carrying out infrastructure work at the site but also continuing operations. "Commercial satellite imagery from June 21 indicates that improvements to the infrastructure at...Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace," it said. Here's more.
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Commercial satellite imagery from June 21 indicates that improvements to the infrastructure at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center are continuing at a rapid pace. https://t.co/by1wVsojAZ
— 38 North (@38NorthNK) June 26, 2018
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New engineering office erected at uranium enrichment plant: 38 North
38 North noted "continued operations" at uranium enrichment plant and several new installations at the site, including an engineering-office and driveway to a building housing a nuclear reactor. Nuclear officials could be "expected to proceed with business as usual until Pyongyang issues specific-orders, it said.
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