North Koreans don't seem to be restarting reactor: Washington

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — North Korea does not appear to be resurrecting its Yongbyon nuclear plant despite reports Pyongyang had made moves toward relaunching the facility, the US State Department said Wednesday.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that North Korea appeared to be moving equipment at the site but that this did not necessarily warrant concern that its nuclear program had been relaunched.

"To my knowledge, based on what we know from the reports on the ground, you don't have an effort to reconstruct, reintegrate this equipment back into the Yongbyon facility," he said.

His remarks came during a press conference in which he fielded questions about Japanese press reports that North Korea had made good on its threat to begin reassembling the...