Korean Peninsula: Reports
2024
North Korea’s ELWR: Finally Operational After a Long Delay
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Victoria Cheng, and Spencer Faragasso
January 23, 2024
2023
North Korean Nuclear Weapons Arsenal: New Estimates of its Size and Configuration
David Albright
April 10, 2023
Underwater Nuclear Drone: North Korea’s Nuclear Madmen
David Albright
March 27, 2023
2020
Alleged Sanctions Violations of UNSC Resolutions on North Korea for 2019/2020: The number is increasing
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Spencer Faragasso
July 1, 2020
2019
56 countries[1] involved in violating UNSC Resolutions on North Korea during last reporting period
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Bernadette Gostelow, Maximilian Lim, and Andrea Stricker
June 6, 2019
Part II: Technical Note on Reaching a Denuclearization Agreement with North Korea
Institute for Science and International Security
March 6, 2019
Technical Note on Reaching a Denuclearization Agreement with North Korea
Institute for Science and International Security
February 25, 2019
Op-ed: How North Korea Can be Convinced to Give Up Nuclear Weapons
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
January 30, 2019
2018
U.S. and Allies Should Hold out for Broad North Korean Declaration and Inspector Access
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
October 11, 2018
Revisiting Kangsong: A Suspect Uranium Enrichment Plant
David Albright, with assistance from Sarah Burkhard
October 2, 2018
Institute Statement on the Singapore Summit
Institute for Science and International Security
June 12, 2018
Summary of North Korea’s Known Gas Centrifuge Program
Institute for Science and International Security
June 12, 2018
Commercial Satellite Imagery Analysis for Countering Nuclear Proliferation
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Allison Lach
June 8, 2018
North Korean Reprocessing Campaign May Have Taken Place
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
June 5, 2018
Technical Note on a Timeline for North Korean Denuclearization
Institute for Science and International Security
May 29, 2018
On the Question of Another North Korean Centrifuge Plant and the Suspect Kangsong Plant
David Albright
May 25, 2018
Institute Statement on the Dismantlement of Punggye-ri
David Albright
May 25, 2018
Verified Denuclearization of North Korea: Mechanics and Prospects
David Albright
May 14, 2018
Albright presentation
Understanding North Korea’s Nuclear Weapon Capabilities
David Albright
May 9, 2018
Statement on Inter-Korean Summit
David Albright
April 27, 2018
Chongsu Nuclear-Grade Graphite Production Plant? North Korea may be proliferating controlled nuclear goods
David Albright
April 20, 2018
Continued Monitoring of the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
April 18, 2018
North Korea Continues Expanding Its Reactor Capability for Making Plutonium for Nuclear Weapons
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
April 5, 2018
52 Countries Involved in Violating UNSC Resolutions on North Korea throughout most of 2017
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
March 9, 2018
On-Going Monitoring of Activities at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Allison Lach
February 13, 2018
Evidence that the Yongbyon 5 Megawatt-Electric Reactor Remains Operational
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
February 2, 2018
2017
Countries Involved in Violating UNSC Resolutions on North Korea
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
December 5, 2017
Note on the Question of Iran/North Korean Cooperation
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
October 16, 2017
North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities: A Fresh Look - with Power Point Slides
David Albright
August 9, 2017
Power Point download
A Freeze of North Korea’s Nuclear Program: Finding a Definition More Fitting of Today’s Reality
David Albright
June 13, 2017
U.S. Export Control Reform: Impacts and Implications for Controlling the Export of Proliferation-Sensitive Goods and Technologies, A Policy Document for the New President and Congress
Andrea Stricker with David Albright
May 17, 2017
North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities: A Fresh Look
David Albright
April 28, 2017
Shenyang Machine Tools Company
David Albright
April 13, 2017
North Korea’s Lithium 6 Production for Nuclear Weapons
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Mark Gorwitz, and Allison Lach
March 17, 2017
2016
September 2016: Monitoring Activities at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Samta Savla
September 20, 2016
North Korea’s Suspect, Former Small-Scale Enrichment Plant
David Albright
July 21, 2016
Plutonium, Tritium, and Highly Enriched Uranium Production at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site North Korea’s nuclear arsenal may be growing significantly
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
June 14, 2016
May 2016: Monitoring Activities at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
May 27, 2016
Case Study: Nuclear Traffickers Conspired to Procure High Speed Cameras
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
May 19, 2016
April 2016: Monitoring Activities at Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
April 29, 2016
Minor Activity at North Korea’s Nuclear Test Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
April 25, 2016
Correlating the Operation of the Coal Plant to Reprocessing Activities at Yongbyon
David Albright, Olli Heinonen, and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
April 15, 2016
Government Official Raises Concern about Plutonium Separation at Yongbyon
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
April 5, 2016
March 2016: Movement at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
March 23, 2016
North Korea’s IRT Reactor: Has it Restarted? Is it Safe?
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
March 9, 2016
Monitoring Developments at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
March 4, 2016
Update on North Korea’s Reactors, Enrichment Plant, and Possible Isotope Separation Facility
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
February 1, 2016
Update of Key Activities at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
January 13, 2016
From the Sky: North Korea’s 2016 Nuclear Test
By David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Andrea Stricker
January 7, 2016
North Korea’s 2016 Nuclear Test
By David Albright
January 6, 2016
2015
North Korean Plutonium and Weapon-Grade Uranium Inventories
By David Albright
October 7, 2015
Update on North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
September 15, 2015
Yongbyon: A Better Insight into the Status of the 5MWe Reactor
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
April 29, 2015
Future Directions in the DPRK’S Nuclear Weapons Program: Three Scenarios for 2020
David Albright
February 26, 2015
2014
Yongbyon: Monitoring Activities during Shutdown of 5 MW Reactor
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
December 5, 2014
ISIS Note: Further Questions on Sanctioned North Korean Entity
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
November 19, 2014
ISIS Response to South Korean Foreign Minister’s Comments on Yongbyon
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
October 10, 2014
Yongbyon: Centrifuge Enrichment Plant Expands while 5 MWe Reactor is Possibly Shut Down
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
October 4, 2014
Activities Detected at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, William Baker, and Won Gi You
August 6, 2014
On-going Activity at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
May 10, 2014
North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site: Activities Continue on May Day 2014
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
May 2, 2014
Activities Continue at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site (revised May 1, 2014)
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
May 1, 2014
Activities Continue at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site April 29, 2014 (revised April 30, 2014, am)
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
April 30, 2014
Activities Continue at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site (revised April 30)
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
April 30, 2014
Monitoring North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
April 26, 2014
Monitoring Activity at Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
April 23, 2014
2013
Increased Activity at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
December 5, 2013
In Response to Recent Questionable Claims about North Korea’s Indigenous Production of Centrifuges
David Albright and Olli Heinonen*
October 18, 2013
Steam Venting from Building Adjacent to 5MWe Reactor: Likely Related to Reactor Restart
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
September 11, 2013
North Korean Yongbyon nuclear center, August 31, 2013
Institute for Science and International Security
August 31, 2013
Recent Doubling of Floor Space at North Korean Gas Centrifuge Plant : Is North Korea doubling its enrichment capacity at Yongbyon?
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
August 7, 2013
Case Study - United States Busts Likely North Korean Transshipment Scheme
Andrea Stricker
May 24, 2013
North Korean Miniaturization
David Albright
February 13, 2013
ISIS Statement on North Korean Nuclear Test
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
February 12, 2013
Monitoring Activity at Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site*
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
February 3, 2013
2012
Challenges Posed by North Korea’s Weapon-Grade Uranium and Weapon-Grade Plutonium
David Albright and Christina Walrond
October 24, 2012
North Korea’s Estimated Stocks of Plutonium and Weapon-Grade Uranium
David Albright and Christina Walrond
August 16, 2012
Update on North Korean Light Water Reactor Construction Project
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
August 14, 2012
Satellite Imagery of North Korean Nuclear Test Site Shows Growth in Pile of Material Near Test Shaft ; Unclear if Nuclear Test Will Follow
Paul Brannan
April 10, 2012
Light Water Reactor Construction Progressing at Yongbyon Nuclear Site March 5, 2012
2011
ISIS Analysis of IAEA Safeguards Report on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from September 2, 2011
David Albright and Paul Brannan
September 2, 2011
Additional Construction Activity at Yongbyon Nuclear Site
Paul Brannan
June 10, 2011
New Satellite Image of Construction at North Korea Nuclear Site April 27, 2011
Disabling North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Program
David Albright and Paul Brannan
January 20, 2011
2010
State Department Cables: Stopping Iran’s and North Korea’s Illicit Procurement for their Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Programs December 10, 2010
Satellite Image Shows Building Containing Centrifuges in North Korea
David Albright and Paul Brannan
November 21, 2010
New Satellite Imagery of Yongbyon Shows Construction Progress on Experimental Light Water Reactor November 18, 2010
Taking Stock: North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Program
David Albright and Paul Brannan
October 8, 2010
What is North Korea building in the area of the destroyed cooling tower? It bears watching.
David Albright and Paul Brannan
September 30, 2010
2009
No Reconstruction at the Yongbyon Reactor Site September 4, 2009
Case Study - Smugglers Assist North Korea-Directed Illicit Trade to Myanmar
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel
July 14, 2009
Commercial Satellite Imagery of Yongbyon Nuclear Site from May 26, 2009 May 27, 2009
Commercial Satellite Imagery of 2009 Nuclear Test Site in North Korea May 27, 2009
Pre-Launch Satellite Imagery of the North Korean Missile at Musudan-ri April 8, 2009
Commercial Satellite Image Catches North Korean Missile During Flight April 6, 2009
New Satellite Image of Musudan-ri Missile Site in North Korea April 2, 2009
Missile at Musudan-ri site in North Korea Visible in Commercial Satellite Imagery March 29, 2009
Satellite Imagery of the Musudan-ri Missile Site in North Korea: Version 2 March 27, 2009
New Satellite Imagery of the Musudan-ri Missile Site in North Korea March 26, 2009
2008
Slowly, but Surely, Pyongyang Is Moving
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire
January 24, 2008
North Korea’s Plutonium Production Declaration: A Starting Point for an Initial Verification Process
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire
January 10, 2008
2007
Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilities
David Albright and Paul Brannan
October 1, 2007
Phased International Cooperation with North Korea’s Civil Nuclear Programs
David Albright
March 19, 2007
North Korea’s Alleged Large-Scale Enrichment Plant: Yet Another Questionable Extrapolation Based on Aluminum Tubes
David Albright
February 23, 2007
The North Korean Plutonium Stock, February 2007
David Albright and Paul Brannan
February 20, 2007
2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: North Korean Site After Nuclear Test
David Albright and Paul Brannan
October 17, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: Suspected North Korean Nuclear Test Site
David Albright and Paul Brannan
October 10, 2006
The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2006
David Albright and Paul Brannan
June 26, 2006
Dismantling the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
January 1, 2006
2005
The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2005 September 7, 2005
Images of 5 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon Nuclear Site from January and April 2005 April 18, 2005
2004
South Korean Laser Isotope Separation Work: Open Source Scientific References October 5, 2004
The South Korean Laser Isotope Separation Experience
Mark Gorwitz, Special Contributor to ISIS Online
October 5, 2004
Verifiable, Irreversible, Cooperative Dismantlement of the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
June 15, 2004
2003
Focus on the 50MWe Reactor October 15, 2003
Imagery Brief of Activities at the Yongbyon Site
Corey Hinderstein
July 1, 2003
Prepared for a series of workshops in the summer of 2003
March 2003 Satellite Photos of Yongbyon Facilities March 1, 2003
Fast Facts - North Korea’s Current and Future Nuclear Weapons Capabilities
David Albright
January 15, 2003
North Korea’s Current and Future Plutonium and Nuclear Weapon Stocks
David Albright
January 15, 2003
2002
Sorting out conflicting reports of North Korean intentions November 18, 2002
2002 Images of Facilities at Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center March 1, 2002
North Korea: It’s Taking Too Long February 1, 2002
2001
Stay the Course on North Korea
Holly Higgins, Research Analyst
March 7, 2001
Ensuring Nuclear Transparency on the Korean Peninsula: What is an Adequate Approach
David Albright
January 1, 2001
2000
Secretary Albright’s Visit to North Korea October 20, 2000
1999
Light Water Reactors and Nuclear Weapons in North Korea: Let’s Be Fair With Our Comparisons
David Albright and Holly Higgins
October 27, 1999
1994
North Korean Plutonium Production
David Albright
September 1, 1994
How Much Plutonium Does North Korea Have?
David Albright
September 1, 1994
North Korea’s Corroding Fuel
David Albright
August 1, 1994
The North Korean Nuclear Program: Unresolved Issues
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill
June 6, 1994
1992
Yongbyong Nuclear Site Ground Imagery May 1, 1992