DPRK to freeze graphite-moderated nuclear reactors

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DPRK to freeze graphite-moderated nuclear reactors

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday it is willing to freeze its graphite-moderated nuclear reactors in exchange for the U.S. compensation for the move, the South Korean Yonhap news agency quoted an article carried by the DPRK's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

In an interview with the KCNA, a spokesman for the DPRK's Foreign Ministry said, "If the US is prepared to compensate us forour freezing the graphite-moderated reactors (at its Yongbyon nuclear complex), we are willing to freeze them as a starting point for denuclearization."

And the spokesman stressed the need of resolving the standoff arising from the DPRK's nuclear ambitions on the principle of "simultaneous actions."

The DPRK's new expression over the nuclear issue came after it said last Saturday that Pyongyang had shown its "nuclear deterrent" to an unofficial US delegation which paid a five-day trip there.

Two members of the US delegation are in Seoul to brief South Korean officials on what they saw in the DPRK. But no details are available now.

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