Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
YONGBYON: Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a "deeply troubling" development, the United Nations atomic agency has said, a possible sign Pyongyang is expanding its banned weapons program.
The development of the 5-megawatt reactor in Yongbyon - North Korea's main nuclear complex - comes with nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington at a standstill.