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Sep 12, 2003, 03:52 AM
http://nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-korea-north-nuclear.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=
North Korea appears to have halted work at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, center of efforts to produce plutonium for atomic weapons, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
The officials said they did not know the reason, but told Reuters possibilities include: Pyongyang has done this as a gesture to encourage negotiations with Washington; run into technical difficulties, or, more ominously, finished reprocessing fuel needed for a half dozen or more nuclear bombs.
North Korea appears to have halted work at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, center of efforts to produce plutonium for atomic weapons, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
The officials said they did not know the reason, but told Reuters possibilities include: Pyongyang has done this as a gesture to encourage negotiations with Washington; run into technical difficulties, or, more ominously, finished reprocessing fuel needed for a half dozen or more nuclear bombs.
