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Devices removed

By P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE Dec. 22. North Korea today announced that it was dismantling the internationally-sponsored surveillance devices at its plutonium-yielding research reactor which would now be used to ``produce electricity''. The move, which followed the International Atomic Energy Agency's refusal to accede to North Korea's request for a similar step, will, however, enable the `Stalinist' regime to reactivate its nuclear weapons programme on a fast track. The reactor was shut down under the Agreed Framework that the U.S. and North Korea had signed in 1994.

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