SEOUL: Stepped-up activity at North Korea’s main nuclear complex could point to fresh plutonium production to expand its nuclear weapons stockpile, a US think tank said Wednesday.

Fresh satellite images of the Yongbyon facility show high-level activity at two sites, including the five-megawatt reactor seen as North Korea’s main source of weapons-grade plutonium, according to analysts at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

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