Bush troubled by N.Korea move to restore Yongbyon

WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush told Chinese President Hu Jintao of his concern that North Korea plans to restore its Yongbyon nuclear facilities, and the two agreed to work hard to convince Pyongyang to resume denuclearization, the White House said on Monday."President Bush expressed his concern to President Hu about the latest North Korean announcement that they plan to restore the nuclear facilities at Yongbyon to their original state," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said of the telephone conversation. "The two presidents agreed that they would work hard to convince the North to continue down the path established in the six party talks toward denuclearization," he added. North Korea said on Friday it was working on reactivating the plutonium-producing Yongbyon complex, the basis of its atomic bomb program, which it was dismantling under a much delayed disarmament-for-aid deal among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.On Monday, North Korea asked the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog to remove seals and cameras from its main atomic complex, International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed ElBaradei told a meeting of the IAEA Board of Directors.

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