North Korea expands uranium enrichment capacity with new two-storey facility

In the shadow of international sanctions and a decade and a half without inspectors on the ground, North Korea has quietly raised new walls at Yongbyon — a two-storey enrichment facility capable of housing 28 centrifuge cascades, now confirmed by the IAEA through satellite observation alone. The discovery is less a surprise than a confirmation: Pyongyang has long treated its nuclear arsenal not as a bargaining chip but as the foundation of its survival strategy, and Kim Jong Un's public praise of the site's 'greatly expanded production capacity' signals that this expansion is meant to be seen.