Seoul offers to use North Korean nuclear fuel rods

South Korea is proposing to use North Korean nuclear fuel rods, to be removed from a reactor under a six-nation disarmament deal, for South Korean power plants, a news report said Sunday.
Seoul's Yonhap news agency quoted an unnamed government source as saying negotiators should decide how to dispose of the nuclear fuel that will be removed as part of the full dismantling of the North's nuclear facilities under the deal. "Bringing the North Korean fuel rods into the South is one of the options now under consideration," the source said, adding Seoul first needs to check if the North's fuel can be used by the South's nuclear power plants.