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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

N Korea refuses to disarm until reactors built 

North Korea on Tuesday said it would not abandon its nuclear weapons programmes until it received light water power reactors from the US, less than a day after signing up to a watershed agreement aimed at resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korea peninsular.

In an abrupt U-turn that confirmed many fears about entering into any deal with Kim Jong-il’s regime, Pyongyang insisted that an alternative power source had to be provided before it took any steps towards denuclearisation, apparently putting the negotiations back where they started two years ago.

FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific

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