N.Korea seeks more plutonium for nuclear arms: scholar
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A senior North Korean official said his   country plans to unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to   obtain more plutonium for weapons and pressure Washington for   direct talks, a visiting U.S. scholar said on Saturday.
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South Korean government scientists  enriched a small amount of plutonium in a one-off experiment in  1982, the Science and Technology Ministry said on Thursday.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog rebuked South Korea on Friday for undeclared experiments with uranium enrichment and plutonium separation, activities that could be applied to atomic bomb-making.
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Prizing stability above all, Seoul wants Washington to offer more incentives for North Korea's cooperation
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North Korea's partners in the six-party disarmament pact should press Pyongyang in negotiations to accept greater degrees of disablement of its nuclear facilities, a study said on Friday.
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North Korea's representative at talks on its nuclear programme says it should be given light-water reactors.
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North Korea has enough plutonium to build an estimated four to eight crude nuclear warheads that could potentially be mounted on medium-range missiles, a Washington-based think tank said.
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North Korea has made significant progress in disabling its nuclear facility in Yongbyon but has hesitated at providing key details about the extent of its nuclear programs, including whether it has weaponized the plutonium harvested from the reactor, according to U.S. officials.
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The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said Monday he was seeking more cooperation from Iran, Libya and North Korea.
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North Korea has reprocessed 8,000 spent fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium and appears to have exported nuclear material to Libya, U.S. officials informed Asian allies this week.
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SEOUL -- North Korea suggested yesterday that it would not participate in further six-party negotiations over its nuclear program because of recent revelations that scientists in South Korea had illegally experimented with producing fissile material for nuclear weapons.
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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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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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North Korea is prepared to extend wide cooperation to the International Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to help shut down Pyongyang's weapons-capable nuclear facilities, an IAEA report made available Tuesday to The Associated Press suggests.
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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's plutonium-producing nuclear reactor could be disabled by the end of the year, the top U.S. negotiator said Monday.
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North Korea rejected the United Statesâ demand for a more thorough account on whether it has tried to enrich uranium for atomic weapons.