DPRK demands US compensation for suspension of reactor construction

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DPRK demands US compensation for suspension of reactor construction

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday demanded US compensation for a US-led move to suspend the construction of two nuclear power plants in the country.

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday demanded US compensation for a US-led move to suspend the construction of two nuclear power plants in the country.

In a statement released by the official Korean Central News Agency, a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the DPRK will will seize all equipment and technical data for the construction of the reactors unless its demand for compensation is met.

"We clarified the stand not to allow the US and the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) to take out any equipment... before compensating for the losses caused by them to us," the Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

The spokesman also charged that the US "has systematically violated the DPRK-US Agreed Framework (AF) by insisting that it beallowed to take out the equipment and "trying to create the impression that the DPRK is to blame for the collapse of the AF."

"As we have clarified more than once, we only explicitly told the US special envoy that the DPRK is entitled to have not only nuclear weapons but something more powerful than those weapons in order to protect its sovereignty from the increasing US threat," said the spokesman.

The spokesman reassured that Pyongyang had "never admitted to having any enriched uranium program so far advertised by the US."

He said the US is obliged to fully compensate for the huge lossof electricity inflicted upon the DPRK by its deliberate delay andtotal stop of the construction.

"The US should pay damages for the breach of contract without delay according to the relevant article of the agreement on the provision of light water reactors," he added.

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