Yongbyon is the site that produces material that could be used in North Korea's nuclear weapons. Long ahead of the Hanoi talks, rumours have swirled that Pyongyang could offer to shut Yongbyon ...

Kim Jeong-ae lived close to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre before escaping to the south. She claimed her ...

"South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities are closely monitoring related movements" at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear complex, South Korean defense spokesman Jeon Ha-kyou told reporters ...

Kim Jeong-ae, who lived close to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre, has revealed the horrifying truth. Her brother, Kim Jong-chul, spent 13 years guarding the facility after he was ...

In January, Kim vowed to enlarge the North's nuclear arsenal and disclosed an array of high-tech weapons systems targeting the United States. The nuclear test is just one part of a rapid military ...

North Korea has long produced weapons-grade plutonium from its widely known 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon. The light-water reactor would be an additional source of bomb fuels, and observers say ...

"It is no coincidence that we have told the Americans many times that one of the hardest moments in the history of our relations, when they suffered enormous damage, was related to their attempts ...

As tension in the Middle East increases, with the likelihood that Iran will strike out at Israel for killing Hamas leader ...

SEOUL, September 19. /TASS/. North Korea agreed to shut down its experimental nuclear reactor in the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, South Korean president Moon Jae-in said on ...

At the reclusive nation's request, the International Atomic Energy Agency has removed surveillance equipment and seals from the Yongbyon nuclear facility, agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.

(CNN)-- United Nations inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has closed all of its nuclear facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency told ...