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UN nuclear monitors to return to North Korean site

Posted October 14, 2008 11:11:00

North Korea has restored United Nations monitors' access to the Yongbyon nuclear site, including its plutonium reprocessing plant.

The decision comes a day after Pyongyang pledged to resume work to disable the plant.

On Saturday the country was taken off the United States' list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

Pyongyang began disabling the reactor in August but recently it made moves to reassemble it after Washington refused to remove North Korea from the terrorism blacklist.

Tags: environment, alternative-energy, nuclear-issues, world-politics, nuclear-energy, north-korea

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