SEOUL – Satellite imagery suggests recent flooding in North Korea may have damaged pump houses connected to the country’s main nuclear facility, a U.S.-based think tank said on Thursday.
Analysts at 38 North, a website that monitors North Korea, said commercial satellite imagery from Aug. 6 to 11 showed how vulnerable the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center’s nuclear reactor cooling systems are to extreme weather events.
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