North Korea Ready to Act
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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) – North Korea is ready to quickly shut down its nuclear reactor as soon as it receives funds that had been frozen in a banking dispute, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. “The shutdown is something that can be done immediately and it won’t take long,” Ri Kyong Son, vice spokesman at the ministry, told APTN in an interview in Pyongyang.
