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Moscow Offers Nuclear Reactor In Return For Disarmament

January 30 2019

North Korea

Russia secretly offered North Korea a nuclear reactor in a bid to revive deadlocked negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, reports the Washington Post

Last fall, Russian officials offered to construct a nuclear power plant if North Korea agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.

As part of the deal, Moscow would operate the reactor and transfer all byproducts and waste back to Russia. 

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