NKors keep building reactors
TOKYO - North Korea is continuing to build nuclear reactors that could produce weapons-grade plutonium, risking the future of six-way talks on Pyongyangâs nuclear programme, a report Sunday quoted a Japanese government source as saying.
A US spy satellite has confirmed several times in August that the seclusive Stalinist country is building reactors at Yongbyon and Taechon, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun quoted the unnamed source as saying. The construction was believed to be still in the stage of leveling the land but will ânegatively affect North Koreaâ ahead of six-nation talks on stemming Pyongyangâs nuclear ambitions, the source told the daily.
A fourth round of six-party nattering talks between the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and host China is expected in the week beginning September 12, following a delay demanded by North Korea.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-09-04 |