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DPRK Has Restarted Plutonium Production Reactor: US Intelligence Chief

2016-02-11 09:32:43       source:Global Times

February 10, 2016

 

"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has expanded a uranium enrichment facility and restarted a plutonium production reactor, US intelligence chief James Clapper said Tuesday. 

'We further assess that North Korea (DPRK) has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor's spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months,' Clapper said in a statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee."

 

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