North Korea flexes its muscles with nuclear weapons – threatens the US

North Korea is flexing its muscles and, in its latest salvo, it has warned the United States referring it to as “hostile forces”. Pyongyang has warned the US mentioning that its nuke capability can face up to any “reckless hostile policy”.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 15 September 2015.

A high ranking atomic energy official of North Korea has said that the country is improving its nuclear weapons "in quality and quantity." He has also added that in case the US and other hostile forces seek to follow up their reckless hostile policy towards the DPRK they will face trouble. The DPRK is apparently ready to cope with them by using nuclear weapons.
The official has also given the first official confirmation that its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon is operating normally. This reactor is North Korea's main nuke complex and, if re-started, it could produce plutonium required to make one bomb per year.
It may be recalled that Yongbyon's reactor had been shut down in 2007 but North Korea promised to restart it in 2013, when the tension with South Korea ran high after it conducted its third nuclear test.
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Rumors doing the rounds that North Korea plans to restart its nuclear reactor

#yongbyon #nuclearreactor #northkorea Based on satellite images that reveal steam coming out from the Yongbyon plant and an increase in melted snow, observers feel that North Korea may be on its way to revive its interest in nuclear activities. It could be making efforts to restart a nuclear reactor which has the capability to produce fuel for a nuclear bomb. This is the opinion of The US-Korea Institute which is an American think tank.
This institute is based at Johns Hopkins University in Washington and as per its report, the satellite images were of the period between 24 December and 11 January and showed new activity at Yongbyon. These could indicate that the North Koreans were making efforts to restart the plutonium production reactor that had been lying dormant for almost five months. The Yongbyon reactor had been shut down in 2007 and restarted in 2013.
Of course, the satellite images were not necessarily conclusive proof of the intentions of Pyongyang. The last time any activity was seen at the site was in November when North Korea had threatened to launch a fourth nuclear test in response to a United Nations move to probe the country's human rights violations.
South Korea's defense ministry has reported that there was "no circumstantial report that North Korea is making final preparations for a test". North Korea has already conducted nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013.