North Korea is boosting nuclear weapons capacity: IAEA chief

North Korea has made "very serious" advances ‌in its abilities to crook retired atomic weapons, with the probable summation ​of a caller uranium enrichment facility, arsenic it stepped up enactment astatine ⁠a cardinal complex, IAEA main Rafael Grossi said connected Wednesday (April 15, 2026).

Enriching uranium tin supply an alternative, and experts say, a much effective, way to acquiring weapons-grade worldly successful summation to reprocessing spent plutonium extracted from ‌a atomic reactor.