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South Korea condemns North for reactor restart and satellite launch plan

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.

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