NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DAILY

Created: 5/18/1992

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NORTH KOREA: Trying To Justify Reprocessing PIhI

After IAEA Director General Bli* announced on Saturday that North Korea Iseprocessing plum at Vongbyon. Soulh Korean Foreign Minister Yi Sang-Ok reportedly said Seoul wall await details from neat month's formal inspect ton before responding to tae apparent violation of Ihe North's bilateral pledge not lo build reprocessing facilities. Pyongyang told Bint it will Impart equipment from unidentified suppliers lo finish the plant, which is to produce plutonium to support development of futurerccOcr tractor or raised cattle fuel North Korean officials also load Bin the reactor sites under construction that ht toured arc dedicated to producing dec ti icily, and Blii saw power distribution equipment there

Comment; The North probably will tell Seoul the facility is onlyand will claim it does not violate the bilateralPyongyang's nascent nuclear program has no segjtirnate needreprocessing

while producing plutonium