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Article: North Korea says it may resume missile tests.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 11, 2003
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Byline: Michael Dorgan and Warren P. Strobel
SEOUL, South Korea _ North Korea threatened Saturday to resume ballistic missile tests, ratcheting up the crisis over its nuclear weapons programs to new heights.
In another ominous development, a North Korean diplomat suggested that the isolated Asian nation could soon start extracting plutonium from spent reactor fuel rods and restart a nuclear reactor to make even more material for nuclear weapons.
Coupled with new blasts of angry rhetoric from Pyongyang, where a million people participated in a government-staged rally, the latest moves by North Korea appeared aimed at upping the pressure on ...