Korea restarts nuclear plant

NORTH KOREA yesterday said it had reactivated its nuclear facilities and is going ahead with their operation “on a normal footing”.

The communist country will use the facilities to generate electricity “at the present stage”, an unidentified North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said. His remarks were carried by the official KCNA news agency.

The North’s main nuclear facility at Yongbyon has been dormant since a 1994 deal with the United States, but it announced in December that it would revive it, amid a dispute with Washington.