North Korea tried Wednesday to validate its newly unveiled uranium enrichment actions, saying its nuclear deadlock with the United States would not have turned "difficult" had Washington follow through with its 1994 pledge to build light-water reactors for Pyongyang. The U.S. in 2002 balanced the creation of two 1,000-megawatt light-water reactors in North Korea after accusing Pyongyang of running a secret uranium program in a bid to construct nuclear warheads.
The Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, said the nuclear condition on the Korean Peninsula "would not have been as complex as it is now had the U.S. finished the construction and handed over the key" for the reactors. North Korea told visit U.S. scholars final month that it was working thousands of current centrifuges and building a light-water reactor at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon. Centrifuges are use to enrich uranium, which can be twisted into weapons if highly enriched. Light water reactors use low enriched uranium to make energy.
Reiterating its claim that its uranium enrichment is for peaceful energy utilize, the North claim through the party every day that cooperation over such development is "an unstoppable tendency" around the world, hinting at its willingness to extend the technology. "The issue of nuclear energy growth and use is particularly drawing keen interest from developing countries whose economies have been prohibited from normal development by imperialists," the editorial said.
The Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the North's ruling Workers' Party, said the nuclear condition on the Korean Peninsula "would not have been as complex as it is now had the U.S. finished the construction and handed over the key" for the reactors. North Korea told visit U.S. scholars final month that it was working thousands of current centrifuges and building a light-water reactor at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon. Centrifuges are use to enrich uranium, which can be twisted into weapons if highly enriched. Light water reactors use low enriched uranium to make energy.
Reiterating its claim that its uranium enrichment is for peaceful energy utilize, the North claim through the party every day that cooperation over such development is "an unstoppable tendency" around the world, hinting at its willingness to extend the technology. "The issue of nuclear energy growth and use is particularly drawing keen interest from developing countries whose economies have been prohibited from normal development by imperialists," the editorial said.
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