Pyongyang restarts nuclear reactor
3 April 2013 7:09 AM IST
North Korea Tuesday said it has decided to restart operations at the Nyongbyon nuclear complex.
A spokesman for the General Department of Atomic Energy told the official KCNA news agency that the country will ‘readjust’ and ‘restart’ all nuclear facilities at the complex, including a uranium enrichment plant and a 5MW graphite moderated reactor that had been ‘mothballed and disabled under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in October 2007’.
The spokesman said the decision was made at a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea 31 March to cure the country’s electricity shortage and boost up nuclear armed forces, reported Xinhua.
Such a move came days after North Korea claimed that it had entered a ‘state of war’ with South Korea.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye Monday instructed the military to strongly respond to possible provocation by North Korea without any political considerations.
Tensions have been running high on the Korean Peninsula since North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on 12 February as a countermeasure against the joint military drills of the US and South Korea.
A spokesman for the General Department of Atomic Energy told the official KCNA news agency that the country will ‘readjust’ and ‘restart’ all nuclear facilities at the complex, including a uranium enrichment plant and a 5MW graphite moderated reactor that had been ‘mothballed and disabled under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in October 2007’.
The spokesman said the decision was made at a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea 31 March to cure the country’s electricity shortage and boost up nuclear armed forces, reported Xinhua.
Such a move came days after North Korea claimed that it had entered a ‘state of war’ with South Korea.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye Monday instructed the military to strongly respond to possible provocation by North Korea without any political considerations.
Tensions have been running high on the Korean Peninsula since North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on 12 February as a countermeasure against the joint military drills of the US and South Korea.
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