SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the mercurial state more material to produce atomic arms. The announcement comes after the reclusive North, hit with fresh U.N. sanctions to punish it for a nuclear test in May, has warmed up ...

North Korea has completed reprocessing spent fuel rods to make more fuel for nuclear weapons, official media said Tuesday. The country had "successfully completed reprocessing spent fuel rods by the end of August" at its Yongbyon complex, the North's Korean Central News Agency said. In early September the North had said the plutonium extracted from the reprocessing "is being ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and turned it into arms-grade plutonium, giving the mercurial state more material to produce atomic arms. The announcement comes after the reclusive North, hit with fresh U.N. sanctions to punish it for a nuclear test in May, has warmed up ...

North Korea Tuesday accused the United States of stepping up production and deployment of "bunker-buster" bombs targeting its nuclear sites. The United States is deploying the bombs "to attack underground military targets and nuclear facilities" in the North, the ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary. This proved that Washington has not abandoned "ambitions to stifle" Pyongyang ...