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SOUTH KOREA went ballistic yesterday after the North announced it had restarted a nuclear reactor and was planning to launch weather satellites.
Pyongyang announced yesterday that it was reactivating the 5MW nuclear reactor at the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre.
Like other nuclear reactors, the Yongbyon plant produces plutonium as a by-product that can be enriched to nuclear weapons grade.
The director of the North’s Atomic Energy Institute said the country was improving its nuclear arsenal in “quality and quantity,” and was ready to respond to the US and other aggressors “at any time.”
On Monday the government said it would launch a series of weather observation satellites to mark the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea next month.
But Seoul said any rocket launch would be “grave act of provocation and military threat” in violation of UN security council resolutions.
