North Korea says has started extracting plutonium

2009/04/25 03:47:23 @Reuters: International News

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=GBCgqueLOdE:7U02wTbNZ_U:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=GBCgqueLOdE:7U02wTbNZ_U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=GBCgqueLOdE:7U02wTbNZ_U:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=GBCgqueLOdE:7U02wTbNZ_U:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=GBCgqueLOdE:7U02wTbNZ_U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/GBCgqueLOdE" height="1" width="1"/
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