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North Korea has a military nuclear weapons program [ 7 ] and, as of 2024, is estimated to have an arsenal of approximately 50 nuclear weapons and sufficient production of fissile material for six to seven nuclear weapons per year. [ 8 ] North Korea has also stockpiled a significant quantity of chemical and biological weapons.
This chronology of the North Korean nuclear program has its roots in the 1950s and begins in earnest in 1989 with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the main economic ally of North Korea. The chronology mainly addresses the conflict between the United States and North Korea, while including the influences of the other ...
North Korea's nuclear testing series summary Series or years Years covered Tests [Summ 1] Devices fired Devices with unknown yield Peaceful use tests Non-PTBT tests [Summ 2] Yield range [Summ 3] Total yield (kilotons) [Summ 4] Notes nuclear tests: 2006–2017 6: 6: 0.7–250 197.8: Totals: 2006-Oct-9 to 2017-Sep-3 6 6 0.7–250
Lee Sang-kyu, a nuclear engineering expert at South Korea's Korea Institute for Defense Analysis, said North Korea is estimated to have 80-90 nuclear warheads of uranium and plutonium, and that is ...
Nuclear power in North Korea. The 5 MWe experimental reactor built at Yongbyon in the period 1980–1985. North Korea (DPRK) has been active in developing nuclear technology since the 1950s. Although the country currently has no operational power-generating nuclear reactor, efforts at developing its nuclear power sector continue.
On September 3, 2017, North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a thermonuclear bomb, also known as a hydrogen bomb (see 2017 North Korean nuclear test). Corresponding seismic activity similar to an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 was reported by the USGS making the blast around 10 times more powerful than previous detonations by the country ...
The Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center (녕변원자력연구소) [a] is North Korea 's major nuclear facility, operating its first nuclear reactors. It is located in Nyongbyon County in North Pyongan Province, about 100 km north of Pyongyang. The center produced the fissile material for North Korea's six nuclear weapon tests from ...
North Korea had been suspected of maintaining a clandestine nuclear weapons development program since the early 1980s [12] when it constructed a plutonium-producing Magnox nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, and various diplomatic means had been used by the international community to attempt to limit North Korea's nuclear work to peaceful and ...