2024-09-13 20:05:33
Pyongyang: North Korea has stored uranium on a large scale. Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader in power in North Korea, has visited the uranium enrichment center and its pictures have also been made public. During this, Kim called for preparing new centrifuges to produce weapon-grade material, so that more nuclear weapons can be made. State media KCNA said on Friday that Kim Jong Un himself visited the uranium facility to see the arrangements. With the pictures of Kim’s visit, for the first time the world has also seen a glimpse of North Korea’s nuclear program, which is banned under several resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.
In the pictures that have surfaced of Kim, he is seen among long rows of metal centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium. The report did not clarify when Kim’s visit took place. The location of this uranium facility of North Korea has also not been disclosed in the report. During this, Kim urged to produce more material for tactical nuclear weapons. He stressed on strengthening the country’s nuclear arsenal, referring to the potential threat from the US and its allies. He said that there is a great need to increase weapons for self-defense.
North Korea has many uranium enrichment sites
The world does not have very accurate information about North Korea’s military strength. North Korea, which lives in isolation, is claimed to have several sites for uranium enrichment. Experts claim that a uranium enrichment plant has been seen at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in satellite images. It is estimated from this that North Korea is rapidly expanding its nuclear program.
Kim has pushed to increase the number of centrifuges to rapidly increase nuclear weapons production and expand the use of new types of centrifuges to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. North Korean tactical nuclear weapon designs may rely primarily on uranium for their core. Ankit Panda of the US-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace says the new types of centrifuges show that North Korea is expanding its fuel cycling capacity.
Estimates of the number of North Korean nuclear weapons vary. Many countries have also been expressing concern over its uranium reserves. Actually, uranium is a radioactive element, uranium is very important in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Uranium is the most widely used fuel by nuclear power plants for nuclear fission. To make nuclear fuel, raw uranium has to undergo processes, which result in the formation of a substance with increased concentration of the isotope uranium-235.