reactor started. In 2010, a uranium enrichment plant began operating. The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center site occupies 24.8 square kilometres...

750°E / 39.833; 125.750 Nyŏngbyŏn County (in standard Southern dialect: Yŏngbyŏn) is a county in North Pyŏngan Province, North Korea. It borders the cities...

nuclear weapons. Soviet engineers took part in the construction of the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center and began construction of an IRT-2000...

February 13 – North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving...

IRT-2000 pool-type research reactor was supplied by the Soviet Union for the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center in 1963, and began operation in 1965...

The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center opens. 1965: The Yongbyon IRT-2000 research reactor reaches a power rating of 2 MW. 1974: The Yongbyon IRT-2000...

researchers and technical personnel. Graduates are reportedly posted to the Yŏngbyŏn Nuclear Research Center or to nuclear facilities in Pakch'ŏn-kun. Kim Chaek...

any suspicion." The IAEA had been observing the disabling of the DPRK Yongbyon nuclear facilities since July 2007, and was responsible for the containment...

closure of North Korea's graphite-moderated nuclear power plant program at Yongbyon. This agreement broke down after both sides defaulted, especially since...

military escort, while Kijŏng-dong is not accessible to visitors. The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center sits within a closed city that occupies...