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US official: North Korea nuclear reactor restarted

By Matthew Pennington
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US official: North Korea nuclear reactor restarted

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea has followed through on its threat to advance its nuclear weapons program, the top U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday, while a research institute pointed to signs the communist country is preparing to launch bigger rockets.

Those developments will add to the international concern about the intentions of young leader Kim Jong Un, amid scant sign that negotiations to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions will resume any time soon.

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