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North Korea has the capacity to make more base ingredients for nuclear bombs than previously believed, Fox News reports.
New research from Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation is showing new capabilities by Kim Jong Un.
He reportedly has the potential to accelerate the earliest stages of production.
The nation’s output of uranium is just a fraction of what could be produced, according to the research.
Satellite imagery shows the nation’s equipment and facility size of the Kim regime.
Researchers have estimated their production based on the levels of waste deposited near the mill.
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The gap between potential and actual production may indicate that the Kim regime is satisfied with its current proliferation levels, doesn’t have enough ore to mine or that potential bottlenecks exist at later stages of weapons-grade fissile development, said Sulgiye Park, the report’s lead author who is a nuclear-security research fellow at Stanford.
