Satellite image of the Yongbyon facility in North Korea captured by DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite on March 2, 2002. South Korea voiced deep concern on December 25, 2002 over North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship after its communist neighbour moved fresh fuel to a reactor capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. President Kim Dae-jung, quoted by his office, told a meeting of his national security council that the South must work with the United States and Japan to 'stop the situation from worsening and bringing crisis to the Korean peninsula.' Photo by Reuters (Handout) (Reuters)

A VIRTUAL TOUR of the site

External view of the Yongbyon-1 nuclear power plant in
May 1992. Courtesy of the IAEA

An Overhead Tour of Yongbyon and excellent reference:

What's new in Satellite Imagery?

ISIS Issue Brief: Iran Building Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities: International Transparency Needed, By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, December 12, 2002

Background on the Iraqi Al Furat Facility Shown in White House Photos Released October 7, 2002, October 8, 2002

• Background on Al Furat as Envisioned by Iraq in the 1980s, October 8, 2002

ISIS Issue Brief: Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts? by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 10, 2002.

Annotated images of Algeria's nuclear site at Ain Oussera

Annotated Satellite Images of the Pelindaba and Valindaba Sites, Showing Key Nuclear Weapon-Related Facilities

An Overhead Tour: The Yongbyon Nuclear Site by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein (from David Albright and Kevin O'Neill, (eds.) Solving the Noth Korean Nuclear Puzzle, (Washington, DC: ISIS Press, 2000). (available in November 2000)).

View newly released 1-meter Ikonos images of Pakistan's May 30, 1998 nuclear test site here.

Available Images:

Khushab Plutonium Production Reactor, Pakistan

Khushab Heavy Water Plant, Pakistan

Pakistan's Nuclear Test Site

North Korea

Iraq

Rocky Flats Plant, USA

South Africa's Pelindaba and Valindaba Facilities

Satellite Studies and News

"New Details Emerge About Pakistan's First Nuclear Test Site," David Albright, Corey Gay Hinderstein, and Frank Pabian. Published in Earth Observation Magazine, December 1998/January 1999.

"Report to Colorado Department of Health: Description of Work Obtaining Satellite Photos of the Rocky Flats Plant," by Corey Gay Hinderstein, May 10, 1999

"Development of the Al-Tuwaitha Site: What If the Public or the IAEA had Overhead Imagery?" by David Albright, Corey Hinderstein, and Khidhir Hamza, April 26, 1999.