Pyongyang to end nuclear freeze

The nuclear reactor, suspected of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons, was frozen in 1994 under the Agreed Framework with the US.

Yonhap quoted a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying in a statement that Pyongyang would ‘‘immediately lift the freeze and reactivate and build nuclear facilities necessary for power production’’. Under the 1994 pact, Pyongyang had promised to scrap plans to develop nuclear weapons in return for light water nuclear reactors and fuel oil supplies.