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North Korea said Wednesday it is making rapid progress in enriching uranium and building a new reactor -- projects which experts say could give it a second way to make nuclear weapons."The construction of experimental LWR (light-water reactor) and the low-enriched uranium ...

North Korea will soon start operating a new home-built nuclear reactor, its official news agency said Thursday in a commentary one year after Pyongyang publicly disclosed the plant."The day is near at hand when a light-water reactor entirely based on domestic ...

North Korea is making progress on a project that it says is a light water reactor but has raised overseas concerns, a US think tank said Wednesday after obtaining satellite images.The Institute for Science and International Security released images that showed ...

North Korea is rapidly completing what it says will be a light water reactor despite growing concerns over safety following Japan's quake-triggered nuclear disaster, news reports said Friday.The speed of construction has reportedly sparked fresh safety concerns in neighbouring South ...

North Korea has been developing a uranium enrichment programme -- a potential second way to make nuclear bombs -- since the late 1990s, a senior defector was Wednesday quoted as saying.The defector, quoted by South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper, said centrifuges for ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea is digging a tunnel at its known nuclear test site which would make it ready to conduct a third nuclear test by March, a move calculated to strengthen its hand as it seeks international talks, a South Korean ...

SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - South Korea said on Tuesday it suspects the North has been secretly enriching uranium at more locations besides its main nuclear site -- which could mean it has more material for building nuclear bombs.South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been secretly enriching uranium that could be used to build nuclear weapons at three or four undisclosed locations, a South Korean intelligence official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.The facilities are in addition to the one ...

US Institute: Satellite images show North Korea building light-water reactorA private American security institute says new satellite images and interviews with American experts show North Korea is constructing an experimental light-water nuclear reactor at its main Yongbyon atomic complex.The Washington-based Institute ...

North Korea claims to be building an experimental light-water nuclear reactor for completion by 2012, says a US expert who visited the communist state this month.Jack Pritchard, president of the Korea Economic Institute, told journalists in Washington Tuesday that he had ...

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N. Korea says progress made on uranium production

North Korea says new reactor to start soon

N.Korea makes progress at nuclear site: images

Fast progress of N.Korea reactor alarms Seoul: media

N. Korea working on uranium enrichment 'since 1990s'

North Korea digging tunnel for spring nuclear test: report

South Korea suspects North has more uranium sites

North Korea operating 3-4 more uranium sites: report

Satellite appears to show NKorea building reactor

N.Korea to build light-water reactor soon: expert

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