Nov. 24 (UPI) -- North Korea has been upgrading its Yongbyon nuclear facility throughout 2025, underscoring the regime's drive to accelerate its fissile material production capabilities, according to a new report by U.S.-based monitoring website 38 North.
"Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center from October and November 2025 shows continuation of modernization and expansion efforts throughout the site," the report, published Friday, said.
The nuclear complex, located roughly 60 miles north of capital city Pyongyang, "plays a critical role in the country's production of nuclear material for its weapons program, as the sole producer of plutonium and a significant source of enriched uranium," the report said.
Much of the work cited shows the continued development of a suspected new uranium enrichment facility, which was first disclosed by International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi in June.
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