North Korea has restarted reactor to make plutonium, fresh images suggest

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Trump?s defense secretary plans to visit Japan and South Korea next week and concerns about North Korea are expected to top his agenda. A 38 North Korea report last week said operations at the reactor had been suspended since late 2015. Washington?s 38 North project, which monitors North Korea, said previous analysis from 18 January showed signs that North Korea was preparing to restart the reactor at Yongbyon, having unloaded spent fuel rods for reprocessing to produce additional plutonium for its nuclear weapons stockpile. North Korea has maintained its nuclear and missile programs in violation of repeated rounds of international sanctions. New commercial satellite imagery suggests North Korea has resumed operation of a reactor at its main nuclear site that is used to produce plutonium for its nuclear weapons program, a US thinktank said on Friday.