Visit The Uranium Financing Facility, Kim Jong-un Says The US Leadership Imperialist Threat Is Over The Limit

Kim Jong-un while reviewing North Korea's uranium enrichment facility. (Source: KCNA)

JAKARTA - Kim Jong-un said the threat of US-led imperialists had crossed the line when state media for the first time broadcast the location of uranium enrichment when the North Korean leader conducted an inspection.

North Korean state media for the first time on Friday broadcast a centrifugal facility to produce weapons-class nuclear materials.

Leader Kim was reportedly accompanied by the Deputy Director of the First Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) during a visit, but it was not explained when and where the visit was made.

Leader Kim praised North Korea's officials, scientists and technicians in the field of nuclear weapons, which he judged were implementing plans to produce nuclear-class weapons needed for the warhead without failure.

Leader Kim said the "anti-DPRK nuclear threat" of "US imperial-led allied forces" had crossed the line, according to a KCNA report, as quoted September 13, using the official name of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.

He was reportedly amazed after walking around the uranium enrichment base control room to study the entire production line operation. He also traveled to the construction site, Leader Kim expressed satisfaction with the technical power achieved by North Korean experts in the field of nuclear power.

The security environment faced by the DPRK, the peculiarity of the Korean revolution to continue to face the US and detain it, as well as prospective threats require the DPRK to continue to expand and strengthen its defense capabilities to defend itself, as well as the ability to carry out a preemptive strike with nuclear power as its axis, Leader Kim said.

He stressed that improving technological advances and the production of nuclear weapons materials is important to maintain the highest level of defense and level.

The report on Leader Kim's visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute and a weapons-based nuclear material production base, is the first to feature North Korea's banned urainum enrichment facility based on UN Security Council resolutions.

North Korea is believed to have several locations to enrich uranium. Analysts say commercial satellite imagery has demonstrated development in recent years at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, including its uranium enrichment facility, which suggests possible expansion.

Uranium is a naturally available radioactive element. To make nuclear fuel, crude uranium undergoes a process that produces materials with an increasing concentration of uranium-235 isotopes.

Earlier, Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said on Monday, his party had observed activities consistent with the operation of reactors and enrichment facilities reported at Yongbyon.

A new type of centrifuge shows North Korea is developing its fuel recycling capabilities, said Ankit Panda of the US-centric Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

"Kim also seems to hint that North Korea's tactical nuclear weapons design may mainly depend on uranium as a core," he said.

This is important because North Korea is better able to increase its highly enriched uranium supply, Panda said, compared to more complicated processes for plutonium.

North Korea invited some foreign scientists to look at the centrifuge facility at Yongbyon in 2010. However, Jenny Town of the US-centric Stimson Center said Friday's report was the first and only photo of the equipment.

"This shows how advanced their enrichment capabilities are, which give greater credibility to their ability and commitment to enhance their nuclear weapons arsenal," he said.