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| North Korea to reactivate nuclear programme |
| 2002-12-12 |
| Ananova North Korea says it is to immediately reactivate a nuclear programme the US suspects was being used to develop weapons. A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman confirms they will revive a Soviet-designed nuclear reactor and resume construction of other nuclear facilities to supply desperately needed power. The move has raised fears of a nuclear crisis in the region. The programme was suspended under a 1994 deal with the US, averting a possible war on the Korean Peninsula. Experts say North Korea could quickly extract enough plutonium from its old facilities to make several nuclear weapons. But the official says they were obliged to revive the programme because of the US-led decision to suspend annual oil shipments of 500,000 tons to the North. "You're not sending us oil, so we have to revive our nuclear program." "And why ain't we sending you oil?" "'Cuz we revived our nuclear program..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 ....Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter was unavailable for comment. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-12 14:39:10 |