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Article: United States: North Korea expected to continue preparations to dismantle a nuclear reactor.
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- June 27, 2008
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Byline: prashant03
A day after releasing details of its long-secret nuclear program, North Korea on Friday plans to destroy a highly visible tower at a facility where officials now acknowledge they extracted plutonium to build nuclear weapons.
Workers remove fuel rods on the reactor floor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility this year.
1 of 2 The massive implosion at the Yongbyon facility is intended to be a powerful public symbol of a move to end nuclear activities by the Communist nation once branded a member of an "axis of evil" by U.S. President George W. Bush.
But the move will also have a practical purpose. Nuclear experts ...