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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.
VIJAY PRASHAD on why the US attack on Iran was illegal and why the attack could actually spur nuclear weapons proliferation
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from Parliament Square, where a rally slammed the hypocrisy of allowing Israel to bomb Iran and kill hundreds to stop it developing nuclear weapons — the same weapons Israel secretly has and refuses to explain