Australia is an “easy target” for a potential nuclear attack from North Korea, although as a sparsely populated country, it’s unlikely we’ll be bombed directly.
That’s the view of Australian National University Korea expert Leonid Petrov, who told news.com.au that the secretive state would be able to make enough weapons-grade plutonium to create a nuclear bomb each year.
And he said their weapons could reach Australia, although, as we don’t have a huge strategic importance or many military operations, they are more likely to target South Korea, Japan and the USA.
North Korea mothballed the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in 2007 under a six-nation aid-for-disarmament accord, but began renovating it after its last nuclear test in 2013.
This week, the country’s Atomic Energy Institute said that the Kim Jong-un regime had been improving the quantity and quality of its nuclear weapons and confirmed the Yongbyon nuclear complex — including a five-megawatt reactor — was now fully operational.
Mr Petrov, the Australian National University’s Korean studies researcher, said that meant North Korea was now producing weapons-grade plutonium — used in nuclear bombs — at the facility as part of its nuclear weapons program.
“Plutonium materials are perfect materials for nuclear bombs,” Mr Petrov said.
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