North Korea's Nuclear Plans May Foil Talks: New Agreement Could Collapse

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Published reports that North Korea may be renewing its nuclear weapons program are likely to harden opposition in Congress and among foreign nations to assisting the communist state with its energy needs, several officials said yesterday.

The reports that the North Koreans are digging an underground complex north of Pyongyang that may be used to build nuclear weapons, attributed to U.S. intelligence agencies, appeared this week in Time and the New York Times, worrying officials in the administration and Congress.

"Anything that raises Congress' doubts about North Korea's intention to carry out the agreed framework doesn't help," a State Department official said …