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Is China warming back to Pyongyang?

Edit Asia Times 16 Jun 2016
SEOUL–Is China thawing relations with North Korea, its nuclear saber-rattling ally?. Chinese president Xi Jinping’s sudden meeting with a top North Korean envoy on June 1 is raising eyebrows in Seoul ... Leading a 40-strong delegation, Ri went into talks at two levels ... According to US analysts, the latest satellite aerial photos indicate renewed activity at Yongbyon nuclear complex where bomb-making plutonium is produced ... US pressure....

N Korea may have 21 or more Nuclear weapons: US think tank

Edit Indian Express 15 Jun 2016
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) based the estimates on the amounts of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium the North is believed to have produced at its Yongbyon nuclear complex. The report came after International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano said last week that North Korea might have reactivated a plant at Yongbyon for reprocessing plutonium for use in nuclear weapons....

North Korea may be 'significantly' upping nuclear bomb output: report

Edit Deccan Chronicle 15 Jun 2016
Plutonium also can be used to make nuclear weapons. The institute's report said the group independently confirmed activity inside the radiochemical laboratory at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear site ... North Korea vowed in 2013 to restart all its nuclear facilities, including the main reactor and a smaller plant at Yongbyon, which was shut down in 2007 as part of an international disarmament-for-aid deal that later collapsed ... ....

North Korea may be 'significantly' upping nuclear bomb output

Edit The Times of India 15 Jun 2016
WASHINGTON ... Plutonium also can be used to make nuclear weapons. The institute's report said the group independently confirmed activity inside the radiochemical laboratory at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear site ... North Korea vowed in 2013 to restart all its nuclear facilities, including the main reactor and a smaller plant at Yongbyon, which was shut down in 2007 as part of an international disarmament-for-aid deal that later collapsed....

Report: N. Korea 'significantly increasing' its nuclear capabilities

Edit Stars and Stripes 15 Jun 2016
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea may have as many as 21 nuclear weapons and is “significantly increasing” its capabilities, a Washington-based think tank says ... The Yongbyon reactor was closed in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament deal during six-party talks with the U.S ... It based the estimated number of additional nuclear weapons on an analysis of North Korea’s production of separated plutonium and weapons-grade uranium at Yongbyon ... ....

North Korea may be ‘significantly’ upping nuclear bomb output – report

Edit Asia Times 14 Jun 2016
By David Brunnstrom and Jonathan Landay ... The institute’s report said the group independently confirmed activity inside the radiochemical laboratory at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear site ... North Korea vowed in 2013 to restart all its nuclear facilities, including the main reactor and a smaller plant at Yongbyon, which was shut down in 2007 as part of an international disarmament-for-aid deal that later collapsed....

North Korea may have 21 nukes or more: U.S. think-tank

Edit The Hindu 11 Jun 2016
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) based the estimates on the amounts of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium the North is believed to have produced at its Yongbyon nuclear complex ... The report came after International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Chief Yukiya Amano said last week that North Korea might have reactivated a plant at Yongbyon for reprocessing plutonium for use in nuclear weapons....

Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General (UN - United Nations)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Jun 2016
(Source. UN - United Nations). The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. **Security Council. Earlier today, the Secretary‑General addressed the Security Council debate on the protection of civilians ... Mr ... No ... The IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] has announced a couple of days ago that North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear site is likely to be reactivated....

N. Korea accuses South of violating airspace, territorial waters

Edit Stars and Stripes 09 Jun 2016
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday accused the South of repeatedly violating its airspace and territorial waters, threatening to respond with “merciless” retaliation ... The Yongbyon reactor was closed in 2007 under an aid-for-disarmament deal during six-party talks with the U.S ... U.S. intelligence head James Clapper also said in February that North Korea could extract plutonium within weeks to months at Yongbyon ... Twitter ...  . ....

US official

Edit The Himalayan 08 Jun 2016
The US assessment came a day after the UN nuclear watchdog said it had “indications” that Pyongyang has reactivated a plant to recover plutonium from spent reactor fuel at Yongbyon, its main nuclear complex ... “They take the spent fuel from the 5 megawatt reactor at Yongbyon and let it cool and then take it to the reprocessing facility, and that’s where they’ve obtained the plutonium for their previous nuclear tests....

North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs

Edit Slashdot 08 Jun 2016
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAE) said on Monday that it had seen signs based on satellite imagery that show that the secretive country had re-activated the nuclear fuel production reactor at Yongbyon ... [of activity indicated at Yongbyon]."...

N Korea restarts plutonium production for nuclear bombs, says US official

Edit Asia Times 08 Jun 2016
nuclear watchdog said it had “indications” that Pyongyang has reactivated a plant to recover plutonium from spent reactor fuel at Yongbyon, its main nuclear complex ... “They take the spent fuel from the 5 megawatt reactor at Yongbyon and let it cool and then take it to the reprocessing facility, and that’s where they’ve obtained the plutonium for their previous nuclear tests....

North Korea Producing Plutonium

Edit Voa News 08 Jun 2016
U.S. and United Nations officials say North Korea has restarted a fuel reprocessing plant at its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon.  The plant recovers plutonium from spent reactor fuel ... The reprocessing plant had been shut down in 2007 as part of an international disarmament-for-aid deal.  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said last year that satellite monitoring showed signs of renewed activity at Yongbyon ... ....
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