平壤声称将重新启动宁边核设施 N.Korea Vows to Restart Stalled Nuclear Complex

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02 April, 2013

朝鲜说,将全面重新启动一个关闭的核设施,这一举动使已经高度紧张的朝鲜半岛局势进一步升级。

朝鲜官方的朝中社援引核机构官员的话说,平壤将重新调整并重新启动宁边核设施,以制造更多核弹,同时解决朝鲜的电力短缺问题。

朝中社说,宁边核设施将包括一座铀浓缩工厂和一座五兆瓦反应堆,可以生产含有武器级钸(金+不)的乏燃料棒。宁边核设施于2007年关闭,以换取经济援助。

几星期来,平壤不断发出威胁,此前联合国针对其最近一次进行核试验以及发射卫星而加强制裁朝鲜,平壤对此感到愤怒。

North Korea says it is restarting all operations at a shuttered nuclear reactor, adding to already heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The official Korean Central News Agency quoted officials as saying Pyongyang would "readjust and restart" the facilities at the Yongbyon complex both to build more bombs and address the country's electricity shortage.

It said this will include a uranium enrichment plant and a five megawatt reactor that can generate spent fuel rods laced with weapons-grade plutonium. The reactor was shut down in 2007 in exchange for economic aid.

The move follows weeks of  threats by Pyongyang, which is angry at tough United Nations sanctions passed in response to its third nuclear test and latest satellite launch.