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DPRK to Reactivate Nuclear Program: Report

The Democratic People's Republicof Korea (DPRK) will "immediately" reactivate nuclear facilities frozen under the 1994 Agreed Framework with the United States, a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.


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The Democratic People's Republicof Korea (DPRK) will "immediately" reactivate nuclear facilities frozen under the 1994 Agreed Framework with the United States, a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman said DPRK would revive a program that it froze in a 1994 deal with the United States, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.

The declaration could not be independently confirmed. However, if true, it would signal a major escalation in DPRK's confrontation with the United States, which is trying to pressure the communist country to abandon a more recent nuclear program.

The announcement also followed the seizure and release of a ship carrying what US officials said were DPRK's missiles bound for Yemen.

Source: agencies


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