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

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

The United Nations said Friday Pyongyang had informed inspectors they will now be denied access to any part of the Yongbyon complex.

The United States, which has monitors at Yongbyon, said two weeks ago North Korea was observed moving equipment out of storage at Yongbyon.

Now Mr Kim seems to be preparing to auction off Yongbyon for a third time: to Barack Obama's incoming administration in America.

The sparkling centrifuges were close to a disabled plutonium reactor at Yongbyon, a site intensely monitored by US satellites.

The United States said Friday North Korea is continuing to take steps to reverse the shutdown of its Yongbyon reactor complex.

Spokesman McCormack said Pyongyang continues to move in the wrong direction with its activity at Yongbyon.

The inspectors, who had been monitoring the Yongbyon facilities since the 1994 agreement, were expelled from North Korea in December 2002.