Kangson enrichment site
The Kangson enrichment site is the name given to a suspected uranium enrichment site located in Chollima-guyok, just outside of Pyongyang, North Korea, along the Pyongyang-Nampo Expressway.Function
The facility is designed to produce Uranium-235, which can be used in nuclear weapons. The United States believes that Kangson has an output double that of Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, though some analysts say it may be only 20 percent larger.History
The enrichment site was opened in the early 2000s, prior to the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center. The United States intelligence community began observing construction at the site in 2007, and identified it as an enrichment facility in 2010. Some European intelligence agencies reportedly are unconvinced with the assessment that the site is used for uranium enrichment. American Analysts say that construction of the facility began in 2002 and may have been operational by 2003.
