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Just a day after its announcement of readiness for another rocket launch, North Korea declared yesterday (Tuesday) that it has upgraded and restarted all of the facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex.
The comments made by the director of the North's Atomic Energy Institute and carried by the official North Korean Central News Agency is widely seen as a possibility of the unpredictable Pyongyang regime conducting another atomic bomb test.
The statement came just a day after North Korea said it is ready to conduct more rocket launches at any time as part of a sovereign space program.
The North Korean move has stirred up concerns that Pyongyang may soon either conduct a rocket launch that Washington and its allies see as a pretext for test-firing an intercontinental ballistic missile or stage another test of atomic bombs that it would mount on such a long-range missile.
The KCNA added that all the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, including the uranium enrichment plant and 5-megawatt reactor, have started normal operations.
The unidentified director of the North Korean atomic agency was also quoted as warning that North Korea is fully ready to deal with the United States and its allies "with nuclear weapons at any time".
North Korea conducted three nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013 in defiance of the United Nations Security Council's resolutions banning such tests.
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The comments made by the director of the North's Atomic Energy Institute and carried by the official North Korean Central News Agency is widely seen as a possibility of the unpredictable Pyongyang regime conducting another atomic bomb test.
The statement came just a day after North Korea said it is ready to conduct more rocket launches at any time as part of a sovereign space program.
The North Korean move has stirred up concerns that Pyongyang may soon either conduct a rocket launch that Washington and its allies see as a pretext for test-firing an intercontinental ballistic missile or stage another test of atomic bombs that it would mount on such a long-range missile.
The KCNA added that all the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, including the uranium enrichment plant and 5-megawatt reactor, have started normal operations.
The unidentified director of the North Korean atomic agency was also quoted as warning that North Korea is fully ready to deal with the United States and its allies "with nuclear weapons at any time".
North Korea conducted three nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013 in defiance of the United Nations Security Council's resolutions banning such tests.
[저작권자(c) YTN 무단전재, 재배포 및 AI 데이터 활용 금지]