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North Korea: Natural event in Pyongyang

Satellite data trace a drainage route from North Korea’s Pyongsan uranium plant to the Ryesong River Satellite imagery shows a wastewater pond below North Korea’s Pyongsan uranium plant repeatedly expanding and shrinking between February and September 2026. The fluctuations keep alive concerns that toxic runoff from the plant could reach the nearby Ryesong River. After an earlier review of optical imagery, I used radar data to track changes in the pond’s […]

Event details

Disorder type
natural disaster
Event type
natural event
Sub-event
loot/property destruction
Interaction
civilians
Key actors
Independent
Location
Pyongyang
Coordinates
39.0188, 125.7593
Source platform
rss

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