Pyongyang
North Korea said this week that it will restart its nuclear-energy program, which was frozen in 1994 in return for aid from the Clinton administration. The statement contained an implicit threat of North Korea’s intention to build nuclear bombs; the government demanded that the International Atomic Energy Agency remove the barriers it placed around nuclear waste facilities, where spent fuel rods that can be used in weapons production are kept. The ruling-party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, carried an editorial announcing, “The army and people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, with burning hatred for the Yankees, are in full readiness to fight a death-defying battle.”
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