NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM

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• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stated that while monitors have not been granted access to the Yongbyon site, there are “indications” that the five-megawatt reactor is once more producing plutonium for the first time since December 2018.
  
  
• The Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center is North Korea's major nuclear facility, operating its first nuclear reactors.
  
  
• It is located in Nyongbyon County in North Pyongan Province, about 100 km north of Pyongyang.
  
  
• The center produced the fissile material for North Korea's six nuclear weapon tests from 2006 to 2017, and since 2009 is developing indigenous light water reactor nuclear power station technology.