Nov 3rd, 2009 - Bloomberg
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Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea’s announcement that itfinished a process to extract plutonium used in nuclear weaponsrepresents further violations of United Nations resolutions andits own commitments, the U.S. State Department said.
“They should start taking steps toward thedenuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” department spokesmanIan Kelly told reporters in Washington yesterday. “The wayforward is to resume the six-party talks and get back to allsides adhering to the commitments that they undertook in 2005.”
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