Major nuclear warning to the West as new North Korea nuke weapons factory revealed
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has hailed the nation’s latest advances in nuclear technology, calling on workers at a new nuclear weapons production facility to increase their output
Staff at the factory looked thrilled about being rewarded for a job well done with more work(Image: KCNA)
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has urged workers at a newly established nuclear production factory to hasten the creation of new atomic weapons to enhance the country’s expanding arsenal.
The Korean leader was pictured inspecting his latest nuclear material production facility on Wednesday (June 3), offering on-site guidance to officials and experts. According to state media reports, he was so impressed that he demanded the factory increase its production output.
Kim, joined by top officials from the Ministry of Munitions Industry of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute, was captured inspecting production lines, discussing projects with senior officials, and interacting with workers as they facilitated the nation’s latest advancements in nuclear technology.
The North Korean leader informed those assembled at the plant that the production capacity of weapons-grade nuclear material has now surpassed twice its previous output thanks to efforts over the past five years, and encouraged workers at the factory to boost their output even more.
According to Northern newspaper Rodong Sinmun, Kim also unveiled a plan to “exponentially strengthen the national nuclear force,” stating that today’s nuclear potential was built on the back of a “noble path of struggle” by North Korean scientists in the past five years, reports the Mirror.
Kim argued that expanding the arsenal would serve as a deterrent to war, describing it as a “fundamental guarantee and powerful safeguard that reliably ensures the country’s security, interests, and right to development.”
He further stated that this expansion was a necessary stance for dealing with long-term confrontation against “the most vicious adversaries”, in a startling warning to the West.
Kim’s inspection of the newly operational nuclear facility comes just weeks after North Korea launched an unidentified projectile into the sea in its latest weapons test ordered by its Supreme Leader.
South Korean military leaders reported that the unidentified projectile was launched off the peninsula’s west coast on Tuesday. This marks the North’s most recent weapons test this year.
Reports suggest the projectiles travelled an estimated distance of 49 miles before plunging into the Yellow Sea on May 26. Similarly, this followed another launch by the North on April 19, where it fired multiple short-range missiles in what state media described as a demonstration of cluster bomb warheads.
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