{
  "id": "yongbyon",
  "name": "Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center",
  "aliases": [
    "Yongbyon"
  ],
  "domain": "nuclear",
  "country": "PRK",
  "category": "Nuclear weapons production complex",
  "status": "active",
  "fielded": null,
  "operators": [
    "PRK"
  ],
  "summary": "North Korea's main plutonium and uranium enrichment complex.",
  "specs": [
    {
      "k": "program",
      "v": "5 MWe reactor (5–8 kg plutonium per reprocessing campaign); about 4,000 centrifuges; light-water reactor possibly commissioning after October 2023",
      "src": [
        "fas-nn-prk-2024"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    },
    {
      "k": "fissile",
      "v": "Enough for up to 90 weapons: up to about 81 kg plutonium and 1,800 kg HEU (North Korea total)",
      "src": [
        "fas-nn-prk-2024"
      ],
      "conf": "medium"
    }
  ],
  "payloads": [],
  "variants": [],
  "art": "nuclear",
  "image": null,
  "verified": null,
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-11-08",
      "change": "Entry created from North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024 (FAS Nuclear Notebook)"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.defensepedia.com/systems/yongbyon.html",
  "sources": {
    "fas-nn-prk-2024": {
      "title": "North Korean nuclear weapons, 2024",
      "publisher": "Federation of American Scientists Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists",
      "url": "https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-07/north-korean-nuclear-weapons-2024/",
      "published": "2024-07-15",
      "tier": 2,
      "checked": "2026-11-08"
    }
  }
}