The operation of the reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear complex has been suspended since late September.
North Korea claims itself a nuclear state but keeps the number of nuclear weapons it may have built or deployed a secret.
“South Korea and the US believe this could be a sign of reprocessing work being done to obtain weapons-grade plutonium,” the Donga Ilbo newspaper quoted a government source as saying. “The possibility of a nuclear test by North Korea is not ruled out,” Donga Ilbo quoted a senior government official as saying, without elaborating on what analysis pointed to the assessment the move may be related to a nuclear test.
North Korea claims itself a nuclear state but has kept how many nuclear weapons it may have built or deployed a secret. Independent estimates of the North’s plutonium range as high as 70kg, which could be enough to build 20 or more weapons.
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