Satellite image obtained by NBCNews shows water flowing out of a North Korean reactor, the latest sign the regime has resumed work that could enable it to build more nuclear weapons.
"The only reason this reactor operates is to make nuclear weapons. The fact it's running means they're going to add to their stockpile," said an expert.
The commercial satellite photo, dated Aug. 25, suggests the regime intends to add to its nuclear arsenal and is making no effort to conceal its activity at the Yongbyon plutonium reactor, said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
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