North Korea said today that it has removed 8,000 spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor, a step that could provide the communist state with more plutonium for nuclear weapons.
"The D.P.R.K. has successfully finished the unloading of 8,000 spent fuel rods from the 5 MW pilot nuclear plant in the shortest period," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, according to the reclusive nation's official news service, Korean Central News Agency.
On Feb. 10, North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, for the first time declared that it possesses nuclear weapons.
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