N. Korea appears to have restarted nuclear facility: source

SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has apparently restarted its nuclear
reprocessing facility at Yongbyon to produce plutonium, an informed source said
Wednesday, two days after the communist nation said it conducted a second nuclear
test.
The Yongbyon facility had been undergoing a disablement process under an
aid-for-denuclearization deal signed 2007. Pyongyang said in April that it will
restart the nuclear facility, reacting to a U.N. Security Council statement that
condemned its long-range rocket launch earlier that month.
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