N. Korea refuses to halt nuke testing, admits restarting plutonium production

A spokesman for North Korea's Atomic Energy Institute has said that his country's reactor in the city of Yongbyon is continuing to produce plutonium and enriched uranium for nuclear tests. "Under conditions that the United States constantly threatens us with nuclear weapons, we will not discontinue nuclear tests," the spokesman said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo news agency published Wednesday.