BSS
  25 Sep 2025, 10:25

Seoul estimates North Korea has up to 2 tonnes of highly enriched uranium

SEOUL, Sept 25, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - North Korea is believed to possess up to two tonnes of highly enriched uranium, South Korea's unification minister said Thursday.

"Intelligence agencies estimate Pyongyang's stockpile of highly enriched uranium - more than 90 percent pure - at up to 2,000 kilogrammes," South Korea's unification minister Chung Dong-young told reporters.

"Even at this very hour, North Korea's uranium centrifuges are operating at four sites," he added.