New satellite images obtained by CNN reveal North Korea is expanding a key facility capable of enriching uranium for nuclear weapons, renovations that likely indicate the country plans to ...

The Trump administration should embrace a North Korea strategy that aims to contain escalation, not keep a white-knuckled ...

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Yonhap) -- Recent satellite imagery indicates the construction of a suspected uranium enrichment plant at North Korea's main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, a ...

A satellite image of the 5 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon Nuclear Complex in North Korea collected on Feb. 7 and March 27, 2013. Images: Photo DigitalGlobe/38North via Getty Images, ...

Regime says it will fire up Yongbyon complex, capable of making a bomb's worth of plutonium per year; Expert says it will take at least 6 months ...

A view of the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center shows flooding along the bank of the Kuryong River in Yongbyon, North Korea, August 6, 2020. Picture taken August 6, 2020.

North Korea first began operating a nuclear reactor in the 1980s at Yongbyon, according to declassified C.I.A. documents and a report by Siegfried S. Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos ...

Yongbyon, the site of North Korea’s only working nuclear reactor, is also the centerpiece of the country’s major atomic research complex. Advertisement ...

A North Korean nuclear plant before the demolition of a cooling tower, right, in Yongbyon, June 27, 2008. A nuclear watchdog said on Monday that North Korea had restarted its activities at the site.

SEOUL — A narrow dirt road climbs through the mountainous North Korean countryside, meandering past shabby villages and down a long stretch that is oddly devoid of human habitation. The ...