North Korea strengthens its nuclear arsenal

North Korea has built a new uranium enrichment facility, thus managing to expand its production of nuclear weapons, Bloomberg reports.

,,A new facility at Yongbyon (the nuclear center) located 100 kilometers north of Pyongyang, which appeared in satellite images, closely resembles the enrichment complex in Kansong, another North Korean nuclear facility’’, the article says.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said the agency is closely monitoring the construction of the new building at Yongbyon. He said the size and appearance of the structure are enough for the IAEA to consider it a potential uranium enrichment facility.

Earlier, on March 13, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un established a nuclear missile launch site on the site of the Winter Palace in Pyongyang, which was demolished a year earlier.

According to analysts from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the base was disguised as a golf course. It has a concrete base, over which a thin layer of soil with grass was laid.

Other experts also note that some of the buildings on the site are not typical of the structures that are usually located on golf courses. In particular, there is a 36-meter building that can accommodate Hwasong-19 missiles in a vertical position. At the same time, the roads in this area are ideal for transporting intercontinental ballistic missiles.