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Hwang Jang-Yop told South Korean lawmakers the communist state completed preparations for an underground nuclear test in 1996.
"As far as I know it has piled up a considerable amount of enriched uranium," he told a meeting hosted by the minor opposition Liberal Forward Party (LFP), a party spokesperson said.
The LFP’s Park Sun-Yong also quoted Hwang, 85, as saying the North’s recent move to restart its nuclear weapons program was a bargaining tactic to earn concessions from
Hwang, former secretary of the North’s ruling Workers Party and an ex-tutor of leader Kim Jong-Il, defected during a trip to
The South and the
The
The North has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it would start work to resume plutonium reprocessing at its Yongbyon complex, possibly within a week. It has barred IAEA from the reprocessing plant.
Analysts in