North Korea has said it plans to increase the amount of plutonium it extracts for use in nuclear weapons, according to a US scholar.
Selig Harrison said North Korean officials had told him they would unload nuclear fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor by the year's end.
Mr Harrison said Pyongyang wants "to use Yongbyon as leverage" to get bilateral talks with the US.
The US insists the nuclear issue can only be addressed in six-party talks.
Pyongyang walked out of multilateral negotiations with the US, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea late last year in protest at US financial sanctions.
Source: BBC News
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