Halted Power Plants Anger N. Korea

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North Korea said Tuesday it will seize equipment for two nuclear power plants being built in the country, until the United States pays a "penalty" for its decision to stop their construction.

Last week, the United States, South Korea, Japan and the European Union tentatively decided to suspend work at Kumho, a remote northeastern coastal village where they have been building two light-water reactors to generate badly needed electricity for the impoverished state.

They say that halting the $4.6 billion project is inevitable because North Korea has violated a 1994 agreement by secretly building nuclear weapons.

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