North Korea Warns Main Nuclear Site is Fully Operational

 

North Korea announced that its main nuclear site is fully operational on Tuesday, and that it is improving its nuclear weapons "in quality and quantity", according to state news agency KCNA. The propaganda arm of the North Korean regime also said that the country is ready to stand up to U.S. aggression in the region with nuclear weapons "at any time."

The Yongbyon nuclear complex was closed in 2007 and North Korea had previously threatened to reopen it, particularly in 2013 after the country's third nuclear test. The director of North Korea's Atomic Energy Institute, unnamed in comments quoted by KCNA and reported by Sky News, said that its scientists had "made innovations day by day" in order to "guarantee the reliability of the nuclear deterrent...as required by the prevailing situation." (READ MORE)