N. Korea said to be rebuilding nuclear plant
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![North Korea began dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear complex earlier this year. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/base/nkorea_yongbyon_afp_270608.jpg?<BR> "North Korea began dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear complex earlier this year. [AFP]")
North Korea began dismantling its Yongbyon nuclear complex earlier this year. [AFP]
The United States State Department says there's no evidence that North Korea has begun reassembling its Yongbyon nuclear reactor.
The US says North Korea has taken out of storage some mothballed equipment at Yongbyon, in what appears to be a sign of displeasure over talks on ending its atomic programs.
Officials say they view the moves more as a negotiating tactic than a genuine effort to rebuild Yongbyon, which experts believe has produced enough plutonium for six to eight bombs.
However, they say North Korea's actions are subject to different interpretations and say they fly in the face of multilateral efforts to get Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programs under a 2005 disarmament deal.
Last November, the communist state began disabling its reactor and other plants at Yongbyon under US supervision as part of a six-nation disarmament-for-aid deal.
Japan's Kyodo news agency reported Wednesday, the plant is being reassembled in protest against a US decision not to remove North Korea from its list of terrorist-sponsoring nations.
