Korean Peninsula
ISIS Reports
Is North Korea Building a New, Kangsong-Like Building at Yongbyon?
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Spencer Faragasso, and the Good ISIS Team
North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Facilities: What We Learned from KCNA’s Images
David Albright and Spencer Faragasso with Sarah Burkhard
New Information on Shenyang Machine Tool Company’s Illicit Sales to North Korea and Russia
David Albright and Spencer Faragasso
North Korea’s ELWR: Finally Operational After a Long Delay
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Victoria Cheng, and Spencer Faragasso
Alleged Sanctions Violations of UNSC Resolutions on North Korea for 2019/2020:
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Spencer Faragasso
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
Part II: Technical Note on Reaching a Denuclearization Agreement with North Korea
Institute for Science and International Security
Technical Note on Reaching a Denuclearization Agreement with North Korea
Institute for Science and International Security
Op-ed: How North Korea Can be Convinced to Give Up Nuclear Weapons
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
U.S. and Allies Should Hold out for Broad North Korean Declaration and Inspector Access
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
Revisiting Kangsong: A Suspect Uranium Enrichment Plant
David Albright, with assistance from Sarah Burkhard
Institute Statement on the Singapore Summit
Institute for Science and International Security
Summary of North Korea’s Known Gas Centrifuge Program
Institute for Science and International Security
Commercial Satellite Imagery Analysis for Countering Nuclear Proliferation
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Allison Lach
North Korean Reprocessing Campaign May Have Taken Place
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
Technical Note on a Timeline for North Korean Denuclearization
Institute for Science and International Security
Institute Statement on the Dismantlement of Punggye-ri
David Albright
Understanding North Korea’s Nuclear Weapon Capabilities
David Albright
Statement on Inter-Korean Summit
David Albright
Chongsu Nuclear-Grade Graphite Production Plant?
David Albright
Continued Monitoring of the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
North Korea Continues Expanding Its Reactor Capability for Making Plutonium for Nuclear Weapons
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
52 Countries Involved in Violating UNSC Resolutions on North Korea throughout most of 2017
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
On-Going Monitoring of Activities at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, and Allison Lach
Evidence that the Yongbyon 5 Megawatt-Electric Reactor Remains Operational
David Albright and Sarah Burkhard
Countries Involved in Violating UNSC Resolutions on North Korea
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Andrea Stricker
Note on the Question of Iran/North Korean Cooperation
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
U.S. Export Control Reform: Impacts and Implications
Andrea Stricker with David Albright
North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities: A Fresh Look
David Albright
Shenyang Machine Tools Company
David Albright
North Korea’s Lithium 6 Production for Nuclear Weapons
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Mark Gorwitz, and Allison Lach
September 2016: Monitoring Activities at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Allison Lach, and Samta Savla
North Korea’s Suspect, Former Small-Scale Enrichment Plant
David Albright
Plutonium, Tritium, and Highly Enriched Uranium Production at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
May 2016: Monitoring Activities at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Case Study: Nuclear Traffickers Conspired to Procure High Speed Cameras
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
April 2016: Monitoring Activities at Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Minor Activity at North Korea’s Nuclear Test Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Correlating the Operation of the Coal Plant to Reprocessing Activities at Yongbyon
David Albright, Olli Heinonen, and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Government Official Raises Concern about Plutonium Separation at Yongbyon
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
March 2016: Movement at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
North Korea’s IRT Reactor: Has it Restarted? Is it Safe?
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Monitoring Developments at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Update on North Korea’s Reactors, Enrichment Plant, and Possible Isotope Separation Facility
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Update of Key Activities at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
From the Sky: North Korea’s 2016 Nuclear Test
By David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Andrea Stricker
North Korea’s 2016 Nuclear Test
By David Albright
North Korean Plutonium and Weapon-Grade Uranium Inventories
By David Albright
Update on North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Yongbyon: A Better Insight into the Status of the 5MWe Reactor
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Yongbyon: Monitoring Activities during Shutdown of 5 MW Reactor
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
ISIS Note: Further Questions on Sanctioned North Korean Entity
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
ISIS Response to South Korean Foreign Minister’s Comments on Yongbyon
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Yongbyon: Centrifuge Enrichment Plant Expands while 5 MWe Reactor is Possibly Shut Down
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Activities Detected at North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, William Baker, and Won Gi You
On-going Activity at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site: Activities Continue on May Day 2014
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
Activities Continue at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site (revised May 1, 2014)
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
Activities Continue at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
Activities Continue at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Test Site (revised April 30)
David Albright, Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, and Priscilla Kim
Monitoring North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Monitoring Activity at Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
Increased Activity at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini
In Response to Recent Questionable Claims about North Korea’s Indigenous Production of Centrifuges
David Albright and Olli Heinonen*
Steam Venting from Building Adjacent to 5MWe Reactor: Likely Related to Reactor Restart
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
North Korean Yongbyon nuclear center, August 31, 2013
Institute for Science and International Security
Recent Doubling of Floor Space at North Korean Gas Centrifuge Plant
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
North Korean Miniaturization
David Albright
ISIS Statement on North Korean Nuclear Test
David Albright and Andrea Stricker
Monitoring Activity at Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site*
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
Challenges Posed by North Korea’s Weapon-Grade Uranium and Weapon-Grade Plutonium
David Albright and Christina Walrond
North Korea’s Estimated Stocks of Plutonium and Weapon-Grade Uranium
David Albright and Christina Walrond
Update on North Korean Light Water Reactor Construction Project
David Albright and Robert Avagyan
ISIS Analysis of IAEA Safeguards Report on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
David Albright and Paul Brannan
Disabling North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Program
David Albright and Paul Brannan
Satellite Image Shows Building Containing Centrifuges in North Korea
David Albright and Paul Brannan
Taking Stock: North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Program
David Albright and Paul Brannan
What is North Korea building in the area of the destroyed cooling tower? It bears watching.
David Albright and Paul Brannan
Case Study - Smugglers Assist North Korea-Directed Illicit Trade to Myanmar
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel
Slowly, but Surely, Pyongyang Is Moving
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire
North Korea’s Plutonium Production Declaration: A Starting Point for an Initial Verification Process
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire
Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilities
David Albright and Paul Brannan
The North Korean Plutonium Stock, February 2007
David Albright and Paul Brannan
ISIS Imagery Brief: North Korean Site After Nuclear Test
David Albright and Paul Brannan
ISIS Imagery Brief: Suspected North Korean Nuclear Test Site
David Albright and Paul Brannan
The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2006
David Albright and Paul Brannan
Dismantling the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
The South Korean Laser Isotope Separation Experience
Mark Gorwitz, Special Contributor to ISIS Online
Verifiable, Irreversible, Cooperative Dismantlement of the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
Imagery Brief of Activities at the Yongbyon Site
Corey Hinderstein
Stay the Course on North Korea
Holly Higgins, Research Analyst
Ensuring Nuclear Transparency on the Korean Peninsula:
David Albright
Light Water Reactors and Nuclear Weapons in North Korea: Let’s Be Fair With Our Comparisons
David Albright and Holly Higgins
North Korean Plutonium Production
David Albright
How Much Plutonium Does North Korea Have?
David Albright
North Korea’s Corroding Fuel
David Albright
The North Korean Nuclear Program: Unresolved Issues
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill