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N. Korea Plans to Restart Nuclear Reactor

North Korean officials say they will reopen a nuclear power plant closed under a 1994 agreement with Washington. The move raises new concerns about North Korea's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Hear NPR's Rob Gifford and Johns Hopkins professor Donald Oberdorfer.

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Rob Gifford is the NPR foreign correspondent based in Shanghai.
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