NEW YORK - North Korea announced today that it would restart two facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a step that will allow the country to start producing weapons grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) with "immediate effect".
A spokesman for North Korea's Atomic Energy Agency told a reporter from state media outlet KCNA that both a uranium enrichment plant and a 5MW graphite moderated plutonium research reactor located at Yongbyon would be "readjusted" and "restarted".
NEW YORK - North Korea announced today that it would restart two facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, a step that will allow the country to start producing weapons grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) with "immediate effect".
A spokesman for North Korea's Atomic Energy Agency told a reporter from state media outlet KCNA that both a uranium enrichment plant and a 5MW graphite moderated plutonium research reactor located at Yongbyon would be "readjusted" and "restarted".
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