IAEA chief Rafael Grossi warned that North Korea is making 'very serious' advances in its nuclear weapons capabilities. This includes potential new facilities for uranium enrichment, providing a more effective means of acquiring weapons-grade material.

North Korea has made “very serious” advances in its abilities to turn out nuclear weapons, with the probable addition of a new uranium enrichment facility, as it steps up activity at a key complex, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has said. Enriching uranium can provide an alternative, and experts say, a more effective, path to acquiring weapons-grade material in addition to ‌reprocessing spent plutonium extracted from a nuclear reactor. Speaking in Seoul on Wednesday, the head of the International...