World IN BRIEF : NORTH KOREA : Construction Stirs Nuclear Suspicions
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
North Korea has sought to camouflage a building under construction near a mountainside nuclear complex at Yongbyon, intelligence sources said. One source said the concealed site could be a weapons-grade plutonium plant. Western and South Korean sources said that new U.S. satellite photographs show recent construction outside the nuclear plant. South Korean and Western officials believe the hard-line Communist regime is trying to conceal an atomic bomb program at Yongbyon, despite denials by North Korean leaders.
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