Photos showing North Korea is still working on upgrading its nuclear facility .

originally posted by: midnightstar
Well now I will be relived if its just a power plant with no ability to make weapons grad stuff .
as for yahoo yea its sucks as news .
now if its verified its just a power plant then alls still good .
I was hoping someone would debunk yahoo news lol

ok another reply puts it as NK needing some kind of cooling to be kept working and again if so then all is good .
Ps I do hope its just yahoo garbage more then anyone .
I hate nuks no matter who has them Humans are still children and children should not be playing with high explosives .

originally posted by: sdcigarpig
Why is anyone shocked at this?

originally posted by: Kharron
a reply to: Annee

Here this one:

How many normal photos were there that they could have released that didn't make Pompeo look so excited to shake hands with the dear leader? And Kim like he's laughing at that?

Imagine the captions for that photo inside Kim's propaganda newspapers?

originally posted by: projectvxn

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: midnightstar

The source , 38 North , seem legit and have a history of calling these things so it may well be true , the question is would anyone be surprised if it's true.

That they do, but this facility is a power facility and not a nuclear weapons fuel processing plant so I'm not sure what the issue is.

Nuclear power isn't a problem.

Determining the operational status of the reactor is particularly difficult at this time. Although a small water discharge is visible from the cooling water outfall pipe going into the river, that discharge is less than has been observed previously when the reactor was fully operational. It may simply be that this is all the water needed at this time to carry away the heat from the residual radioactivity in the reactor, if the reactor is currently shut down. Additionally, unlike last February, no visible steam is being vented from the generator building that would confirm that the reactor is operating, but we cannot rule out that this is simply due to the time of year and insufficient image resolution. (Figure 2)

They have made no confirmations that it is even running.

originally posted by: Whoisjohngalt

originally posted by: projectvxn

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: midnightstar

The source , 38 North , seem legit and have a history of calling these things so it may well be true , the question is would anyone be surprised if it's true.

That they do, but this facility is a power facility and not a nuclear weapons fuel processing plant so I'm not sure what the issue is.

Nuclear power isn't a problem.

Determining the operational status of the reactor is particularly difficult at this time. Although a small water discharge is visible from the cooling water outfall pipe going into the river, that discharge is less than has been observed previously when the reactor was fully operational. It may simply be that this is all the water needed at this time to carry away the heat from the residual radioactivity in the reactor, if the reactor is currently shut down. Additionally, unlike last February, no visible steam is being vented from the generator building that would confirm that the reactor is operating, but we cannot rule out that this is simply due to the time of year and insufficient image resolution. (Figure 2)

They have made no confirmations that it is even running.

Correct me if im wrong, but isnt the difference between power plant enriched nuclear material and weapons grade nuclear material just leaving it in the enrichment machine longer (an oversimplification, i know)?

originally posted by: Whoisjohngalt
a reply to: BigDave-AR

Just wiki'd plutonium manufacturing. Very interesting. I guess they have two options for weapons grade material.

originally posted by: lordcomac
NK has a bunch of very rich soil- mining it would be very profitable, but they lack the ability to get that equipment.

So, why not use the tried and true "they have wmd's!" cry to send in the military and wipe out their government, and install a 'democratic' one that we can do 'business' with like we have in so many other third world nations?
Then we could buy out their resources for pennies on the dollar.

The 'why not' part of my question was sarcastic, for the record. I'm just saying, it seems a lot like the national leaders of this planet aren't interested in peace, it seems a lot like they're shooting for the opposite.

originally posted by: dragonridr

originally posted by: lordcomac
NK has a bunch of very rich soil- mining it would be very profitable, but they lack the ability to get that equipment.

So, why not use the tried and true "they have wmd's!" cry to send in the military and wipe out their government, and install a 'democratic' one that we can do 'business' with like we have in so many other third world nations?
Then we could buy out their resources for pennies on the dollar.

The 'why not' part of my question was sarcastic, for the record. I'm just saying, it seems a lot like the national leaders of this planet aren't interested in peace, it seems a lot like they're shooting for the opposite.

There's no profit to be made on precious metals in North Korea. They dont have the infrastructure needed to make this profitable. Of they did China would have none it years ago. The cost on roads education energy transportation and even ports would far out weigh any profits. You can just go to countries like australia be cheaper.

Turns out rear earth metals arent that rare there in every country you just have to process tons of soil. things that are truly rare dont exist in North Korea most truly rare elements need to be manufactured and not mined. For example Astatine os so rare we make in in labs instead.

That they do, but this facility is a power facility and not a nuclear weapons fuel processing plant so I'm not sure what the issue is.

Modifications to the 5 MWe plutonium production reactor’s cooling system appear complete, but a less-than-normal cooling water discharge from the outfall pipe makes a determination of the reactor’s operational status difficult.