An international effort to denuclearise the Korean peninsula was in jeopardy yesterday after it emerged that North Korea had started reassembling its main nuclear reactor.
North Korea began disabling the reactor at Yongbyon last year in return for economic aid and diplomatic concessions, including its removal from a US list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
But the South Korean foreign ministry said yesterday that North Korea had begun reassembling the reactor in a protest against Washington's delay in removing it from the US list of state terrorism sponsors.
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