Seoul, Nov 12: North Korea has demanded compensation from the United States for the suspension of a multi-billion Dollar project to build nuclear power reactors in the Stalinist state.

Pyongyang also threatened to seize all materials and technical documents at the reactor site at the remote coastal village of Kumho in the northeast, a Foreign Ministry spokesman told the Korean central news agency late today.
The United States and its allies are expected to announce next week a one-year suspension of the project mandated by a now defunct 1994 accord freezing North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes.
"As we declared, we will not let construction equipment, materials and technological data be taken out of the country, until the united states pays damages for breach of contract," the spokesman said.
The project is run by the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO), a consortium made up of the United States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union, set up to manage the five billion Dollar project.
Bureau Report