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朝鲜周四公开了一座新的核炸弹燃料生产设施，领导人金正恩宣布计划“以指数级速度”加强该国核力量。
朝中社官方报道称，该设施采用了“更先进的技术”，但未透露更多细节，例如其位置和投产时间。官方媒体发布的照片显示了一座大型离心机房，表明该工厂可能用于提纯武器级铀。
此次披露新工厂符合金正恩多次宣称的扩大核武计划的承诺，以应对他所谓的美国主导的日益升级的军事威胁。
朝中社称，金正恩于周三视察了这座核设施，了解其运行指标和长期生产计划。
朝中社援引金正恩的话称，由于与“最凶残的敌人”对峙，加强该国核威慑力量在质量和数量上的紧迫性已经增加，这显然是指美国和韩国。报道称，金正恩还提及其他未明确的威胁和危机，作为提升朝鲜核能力的理由。
朝中社报道，金正恩宣称朝鲜的武器级核材料生产能力较五年前翻了一番以上。实际上，外界几乎无法独立核实这一说法。
朝中社称，在设施内的会议结束后，金正恩表示他和其他高级官员“确认了实施雄心勃勃的未来计划的优先顺序，该计划旨在以指数级速度加强我国的核力量”。
朝中社发布的照片显示，金正恩走过两侧排列着密集银色管道和圆筒的狭窄通道，这里看起来是离心机房。另一张照片显示他在会议室与高级官员交谈，桌上铺开了一张模糊的锥形物体示意图。目前尚不清楚该示意图是否展示了弹头设计。
此次披露新设施距朝鲜2024年9月公开另一座秘密铀浓缩工厂不到两年，这是朝鲜自2010年向来访的美国学者展示其主要核设施宁边的相关设施以来，首次公开此类设施。
金正恩在2024年视察该设施时也曾发表过类似言论，呼吁增加离心机数量以“指数级”扩大该国核武库，并敦促开发更先进的离心机系统。
去年9月，韩国统一部长官郑东永表示，朝鲜目前共运营包括宁边综合体在内的四座铀浓缩设施，且这些设施每日都在运行。
核武器可通过高浓缩铀或钚制造，朝鲜在宁边拥有生产这两种材料的设施。
自2019年金正恩与特朗普总统的高风险外交谈判破裂以来，朝鲜一直致力于扩大和现代化其核武库。此后，金正恩一直拒绝美国和韩国重启外交谈判的提议。
今年4月，国际原子能机构总干事拉斐尔·格罗西对记者表示，该机构已确认朝鲜核设施的活动“快速增加”。
今年3月，美国财政部对六名个人和两家公司实施制裁，指控他们协助朝鲜实施一项远程IT员工诈骗企业并向朝鲜核武项目转移数亿美元资金的计划。
美国官员估计，该计划仅在2024年就带来了近8亿美元的收入。
同月早些时候，朝鲜官方媒体播放了金正恩视察海军驱逐舰及其武器系统的画面，称他打算建造该国历史上“最强大的海军”。
专家推测，这些画面的发布目的可能是在美国开始对伊朗发动打击后的短期内展示朝鲜的实力。
North Korea announces opening of new nuclear facility
2026-06-03 20:45:57-0400 / CBS News
North Korea on Thursday unveiled a new facility to produce nuclear bomb fuels, with leader Kim Jong Un announcing plans to bolster the country’s nuclear forces “at an exponential rate.”
The official Korean Central News Agency said the facility used “more sophisticated technology” but didn’t provide further details, such as where it is located and when it began its operation. State media photos showed what appeared to be a large centrifuge hall, indicating the plant is likely used to enrich weapons-grade uranium.
The disclosure of the new factory is in line with Kim’s repeated vows to expand its nuclear weapons program to cope with what he called escalating U.S.-led military threats.
KCNA said Kim visited the nuclear facility on Wednesday to learn about its operation indices and its long-term production plan.
KCNA quoted Kim as saying the urgency for bolstering up the country’s nuclear war deterrent, both in quality and quantity, has grown because of confrontations with “the most ferocious enemies,” an apparent reference to the United States and South Korea. Kim cited other unspecified threats and crises as a need to boost North Korea’s nuclear capability, it said.
Kim claimed that North Korea’s weapons-grade nuclear materials production capacity has more than doubled compared with five years ago, according to KCNA. There are virtually no ways to independently verify his claim.
After a meeting at the facility, Kim said that he and other top officials “confirmed the order of priority for implementing the ambitious future plan designed to beef up our state’s nuclear forces at an exponential rate,” KCNA said.
KCNA photos showed Kim walking through narrow aisles lined with dense rows of silver tubes and pipes, in what appeared to be a centrifuge hall. Another image showed him speaking with senior officials in a meeting room, where a blurred graphic depicting a cone-shaped object was spread across a table. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the graphic showed a warhead design.
The facility’s revelation came less than two years after North Korea unveiled another covert uranium-enrichment plant in September 2024, in its first public disclosure of such a facility since showing one at the country’s main Yongbyon nuclear complex to visiting American scholars in 2010.
Kim delivered a similar message during his visit to that facility in 2024, calling for an increase in the number of centrifuges to “exponentially” expand the country’s nuclear arsenal and urging the development of more advanced centrifuge systems.
Last September, South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said that North Korea was operating a total of four uranium enrichment facilities including the Yongbyon complex, and that they were running everyday.
Nuclear weapons can be built using either highly enriched uranium or plutonium, and North Korea has facilities to produce both at Yongbyon.
North Korea has focused on enlarging and modernizing its nuclear arsenal since Kim’s high-stakes diplomacy with President Trump collapsed in 2019. Kim has since rebuffed U.S. and South Korean offers to restart diplomacy.
In April, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that his agency had confirmed “a rapid increase” in activities at nuclear facilities in North Korea.
In March, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on six people and two companies it accused of aiding North Korea in a scheme in which remote IT workers were used to defraud businesses and funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs.
U.S. officials estimated the scheme brought in nearly $800 million in 2024 alone.
Earlier that same month, North Korean state media broadcast images that showed Kim inspecting a naval destroyer and its weapons systems, saying he intended to build “the strongest navy” in the country’s history.
Experts speculated that the purpose of the images may have been to portray North Korean strength in the immediate days after the U.S. began its strikes on Iran.