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TOKYO-North Korea has begun reassembling its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, able to make material for atomic bombs, in violation of U.S. conditions for improved diplomatic relations, U.S. and Japanese media reported.Japan's Kyodo news agency said reconstruction began on Monday. It cited sources in Beijing close to six-party nuclear talks on North Korean, which involve Japan, South Korea, Russia and China, as well as North Korea and the United States.North Korea announced on August 26 it would stop disabling its Soviet-era Yongbyon nuclear complex and accused the United States of violating a disarmament-for-aid deal.Fox News, quoting U.S. officials, said the North Koreans were probably protesting a U.S. delay in removing the communist state from its list of terrorist-sponsoring nations.Fox did not give details of reassembly work at the plutonium-producing reactor or cite a North Korean source."They've been threatening this move for some time," one U.S. official told Fox. Until now, he said, the threats were seen as just a way for North Korean officials "to express their anger".Even now, piecing the facility back together is seen as a "symbolic gesture" because so much already has been taken apart, according to Fox. Another U.S. official told Fox that Yongbyon could be back in operation in two to three months.The watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency has monitors in North Korea but an IAEA spokesman said on Wednesday he had no information on the current situation.An agency report issued on Tuesday said North Korea had notified the IAEA already on August 18 that it had decided to suspend disabling work at the reactor. The activity had been under IAEA surveillance since November 2007.To read more go to:
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