S.Korea took half year to admit plutonium-diplomats
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The South Korean government took around six months to admit to the UN nuclear watchdog that its scientists had made a small amount of bomb-grade plutonium, diplomats said on Thursday.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon said on Friday the nature of North Korea's uranium program remained unclear despite earlier allegations from the United States.
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The South Korean government acknowledged Thursday that it extracted a small amount of plutonium during a 1982 research experiment, a declaration that came
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North Korea missed a year-end deadline to give a full account of its nuclear weapons under a disarmament-for-aid deal struck with regional powers and the United States.
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SEOUL A week after admitting that government scientists enriched tiny amounts of uranium four years ago, the South Korean government revealed on Thursday that scientists in 1982 conducted an experiment in plutonium extraction at a state-run research
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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
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South Korea has welcomed North Korea's invitation to the United Nations nuclear watchdog to send a delegation to Pyongyang, a possible first step towards its nuclear disarmament.
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North Korea says it has turned plutonium from 8,000 spent fuel rods into nuclear weapons.
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SEOUL, South Korea  - North Korea's declaration  that it possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear  weapons state, South Korea's unification minister said on  Monday, clearly skeptical about the veracity and timing of  Pyongyang's statement.
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The president of the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute in Taejon, South Korea -- a senior government scientist -- had authorised the experiments with the uranium and knew about the work with plutonium, a senior diplomat close to the International
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North Korea has missed a year-end deadline to provide a full account of its nuclear weapons program under a disarmament-for-aid deal, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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TOKYO - Japan on Thursday described the plutonium extraction experiment conducted by South Korea in the early 1980s as &quot;inappropriate&quot; and called for strict inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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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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North Korea will soon receive the funds which for months had blocked a nuclear disarmament deal and should move quickly to honour the pact, a senior South Korean official said Friday.
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South Korea said on Friday it did not expect a shock declaration that government scientists enriched uranium four years ago to upset international efforts to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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VIENNA South Korean nuclear experiments that were revealed earlier this year produced minute amounts of plutonium and near-weapons-grade uranium but there was no evidence linking them to an attempt to make nuclear arms, the UN atomic monitoring agency said
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South Korea acknowledged today that it conducted a plutonium-based nuclear experiment more than 20 years ago, shortly after it admitted to scientific tests involving uranium.