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Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:15 AM

Published 11/03/2009 by AFP via Yahoo!


NKorean plutonium production violates UN resolutions: US

WASHINGTON (AFP) North Korea's plutonium production for atomic weapons 'runs counter' to its disarmament commitments and 'violates' UN Security Council resolutions, the State Department said Tuesday.

Department spokesman Ian Kelly made the remarks after North Korea announced it has produced...

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Pyongyang makes more bomb-grade plutonium
SEOUL: North Korea said yesterday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the ... - [11/04/2009 - Kuwait Times]
North Korea produces more weapons-grade plutonium
* Pyongyang may have ability to make one nuclear bomb SEOUL: North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant ... - [11/04/2009 - Daily Times]
N Korea completes reprocessing of 8,000 spent f...
North Korea said Tuesday it completed reprocessing of about 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear complex by the end of August, in a move apparently ... - [11/03/2009 - Japan Today]
NKorea completes nuclear fuel reprocessing: KCNA - [11/03/2009 - France24 - culture]
NKorea completes nuclear fuel reprocessing: KCNA - [11/03/2009 - France24 - Science]
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...direct talks. "It certainly runs counter to the commitment that they made in 2005, and it violates UN Security Council resolutions" Kelly told reporte...
NKorean plutonium production violates UN resolutions: US [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/03/2009]
...in Pyongyang. "What we're focused on with North Korea is getting to the point where we can relaunch the six-party talks, which will get us to our ultimate goal, which is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" he said. The Obama...
NKorean plutonium production violates UN resolutions: US [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/03/2009]
...communist country "successfully completed reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods by the end of August" at its Yongbyon nuclear...
NKorean plutonium production violates UN resolutions: US [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/03/2009]

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