How Many Nuclear Weapons Does North Korea Have?

The fuel fabrication facility at Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, North Korea (2008). Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ W. Keith Luse

John Power, The Diplomat: How Many Nukes Does North Korea Have?

Pyongyang confirmed that its nuclear facility is back online, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about the program.

With the announcement by state media that its main nuclear facility has resumed normal operations, North Korea’s atomic weapons program is back in the public eye.

The news, reported by the Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, dovetails with a report released in April by the Institute for Science and International Security, which cited satellite imagery as evidence that the facility’s plutonium reactor was back online.

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