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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly visited a uranium enrichment facility and the country’s Nuclear Weapons Institute, and has instructed officials to step up the production of weapons-grade nuclear materials.
The North’s state Korean Central News Agency(KCNA) said Friday that Kim visited the control room of the uranium enrichment facility to learn how its production lines operate.
Kim reportedly expressed great satisfaction with the work, and the KCNA quoted him as saying that just seeing the worksite gave him strength.
He also stressed the need to increase the number of centrifuges and improve their performance to strengthen the country’s capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear fuel.
The report did not mention when the visits occurred.
North Korea invited American nuclear physicist Siegfried Hecker to visit its uranium enrichment facility in Yongbyon in 2010, but this is the first time it has shown a photograph of a uranium enrichment facility to the whole world.