N.Korea seeks more plutonium for nuclear arms -scholar
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A North Korean official said his   country will soon unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to   make plutonium for weapons, seeking to pressure Washington into   direct talks, a visiting U.S. scholar said on Saturday.
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Having coaxed North Korea to shut an aged reactor, disarmament talks resuming this week face the harder task of persuading Pyongyang to loosen its grip on broader atomic ambitions it has long held vital to survival.
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Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said on Tuesday North Korea needs to do more to dismantle its nuclear program before it can be removed from the list of states that sponsor terrorism, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
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WASHINGTON - South Korea secretly conducted an experiment more than 20 years ago with traces of plutonium, a key ingredient in making nuclear weapons, a senior US official disclosed.
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A 137-nation meeting of the atomic watchdog agency demanded on Friday that North Korea scrap nuclear weapons ambitions and urged it to again allow agency inspectors to supervise its return to peaceful activities.
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South Korea's top nuclear negotiator urged North Korea Monday to "have the courage to tell the truth" about its suspected enriched uranium programme, which is slowing down a landmark disarmament process.
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South Korea&#39;s defense minister said  on Saturday he expects North Korea to begin to close its  nuclear reactor, the source of its weapons-grade plutonium,  once $25 million in frozen funds in a Macau bank are freed up.
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The United Nations nuclear watchdog  Friday called on North Korea to give up any nuclear weapons it  may have and allow U.N. inspectors to return to verify that the  country's atomic program is peaceful.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency has called on North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons ambitions and give inspectors entry visas so they can supervise a return to peaceful activities.
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Shortage may spur Pyongyang back to six-party nuclear talks, analysts say.
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North Koreaâs Deputy Foreign Minister Choi Su-heon created another stir as he asserted on Monday (Local Time) that Pyongyang has reprocessed and âweaponizedâ 8,000 spent plutonium fuel rods.
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U.N. experts have found traces of plutonium near an Egyptian nuclear facility and are investigating whether it could be weapons-related or simply a byproduct of the country's peaceful atomic activities, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.
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UNITED NATIONS, New York North Korea says its effort to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons is meant to serve as a deterrent against increasing US nuclear threats and to prevent a nuclear war in northeast Asia.
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North Korea has said it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon said the weapons were needed for &quot;self-defence&quot; against &quot;US nuclear threat&quot;.
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North Korea should move quickly to shut down its source of bomb-grade plutonium, a top U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, voicing hope that stalled six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear arms program could resume next month.
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North Korea has shown no signs of shutting down its main nuclear reactor and the source of its weapons-grade plutonium since last month's deal calling for it to be closed, South Korea's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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South Korea admitted Thursday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in addition to the recently revealed uranium enrichment test in 2000, has also been looking into a plutonium-based