PRESSTV - North Korea has removed seals placed by the UN atomic watchdog on its nuclear facilities, saying it is no longer interested in US concessions.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) installed seals and cameras to monitor the nuclear freeze that North Korea agreed to with the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South korea, in exchange for energy aid and an easing of sanctions.
North Korea has now told the IAEA it will remove seals and cameras at its nuclear facilities and resume work on its reprocessing plant, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said Monday.
The hardline communist regime stopped work to disable its Yongbyon complex last month before confirming last Friday that it was working to restart the plutonium-producing reactor.
North Korea is angry that the US has not dropped it from a terrorism blacklist in return for decommissioning its nuclear facilities and is now in the process of restarting its main reactor at Yongbyon.
The North says it no longer wants US concessions promised under the landmark deal in return for its denuclearisation.
The six-nation aid-for-disarmament deal is deadlocked by a dispute over verification of the nuclear declaration which the north delivered in June.
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