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The DPRK said about a week ago it had stopped disabling its nuclear facilities and considered restoring the Yongbyon nuclear reactor .

A senior North Korean official says his country is beginning to restore a disabled nuclear facility capable of producing weapons material.

The threat comes within days of Pyongyang saying it had begun reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant.

"The minute I heard that there had been an accident at a nuclear facility, I knew we were in another dimension, " Thornburgh later recalled.

But he said there had been no leakage of radiation or radioactive material from nuclear facilities.

"The facility's size and capacity would make the most sense if it were part of a network of clandestine nuclear facilities, " they argue.

Yu suggested the North may be threatening the restoration of its Yongbyon facility as a means of gaining diplomatic leverage.

An IAEA spokesman said it had been told by Iran that "no nuclear material has been introduced into the facility" .

Israeli intelligence said the blasts damaged nuclear facilities near the city and were not accidents.