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Yahoo! News Fri, Apr 18, 2003 World - Reuters U.S. Considers Canceling Beijing N.Korea Talks 38 minutes ago Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is considering canceling talks expected to be held in Beijing next week on ending North Korea (news - web sites)'s suspected nuclear weapons program after Pyongyang said it had begun reprocessing spent fuel rods, a Bush administration official said on Friday. The senior official said the United States had no indication as yet that North Korea had begun reprocessing the spent fuel rods, which could allow it to make several nuclear weapons, but he said it was possible Pyongyang had done so and the United States would not yet know.
"Whether the talks go forward, that's not decided. There is active consideration to canceling them," said the official, who spoke on condition he not be identified. "It is an accurate statement as of the moment to say we don't know of any reprocessing but it's possible that it's begun and we just haven't determined it yet."
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