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Article: South Korea says North Korea has reprocessed some spent nuclear fuel rods, North Korean delegation visits Seoul for talks
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- July 9, 2003
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Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea
South Korea said Wednesday it believes North Korea has taken a key
step toward the manufacture of nuclear weapons even as North Korean
envoys arrived in Seoul, pledging reconciliation but warning of the
threat of nuclear war.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service, or NIS, said the communist
North had reprocessed a small number of 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods
that were stored at its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon. Reprocessing
all the rods could yield enough plutonium for several atomic bombs
within months, adding to a suspected arsenal of one or two nuclear
bombs, experts say.
Since April, North Korea has claimed that it had all but ...