North Korea threatens new nuclear test

North Korea has threatened to conduct a fourth nuclear test in response to a recent United Nations resolution calling for an investigation into the country’s alleged human rights violations
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Punggye-ri: Site ofthree previous tests

CHINA

Yellow Sea (West Sea)

100km 60 miles 

Sea of Japan (East Sea)

NORTH KOREA

P’yongyang

Seoul

SOUTH KOREA
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NUCLEAR PREPARATIONS

Five-megawatt reactor Recent satellite images show facility appears to have been shut for about 10 weeks, longer than normal maintenance would require. Evidence suggests small number of fuel rods, possibly defective, could have been removed from reactor ahead of possible reprocessing

Radiochemical laboratory Steam observed rising in early November from buildings where spent fuel rods are reprocessed to extract weapons-grade plutonium –activity consistent with facility commencing operations

Pilot fuel fabrication facility Signs of chemical waste could indicate production of new fuel rods to replace spent ones
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YONGBYON NUCLEAR COMPLEX

Kuryong River

Experimental light water reactor (under construction)

Waste storage sites

50MW reactor(unfinished)

Uranium enrichment plant Provides North Korea with second means of producing fissile material for nuclear weapons

500m 550 yards  
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Sources: ISIS, CNS, wire agencies

Picture: Associated Press

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