Work to start on nuclear plants

Seoul - A consortium of nations building two nuclear reactors in impoverished North Korea said yesterday that construction would…

Seoul - A consortium of nations building two nuclear reactors in impoverished North Korea said yesterday that construction would begin next week.

Kedo, which includes the United States, South Korea and Japan, was formed in 1995 to finance the building of two light-water reactors according to a 1994 agreement between Pyongyang and Washington. The agreement, signed in Geneva, was designed to halt North Korea's suspected nuclear weapons programme.

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