Talks over North Korea's nuclear programme appear to be back on track after confusion about a statement apparently saying Pyongyang had started reprocessing thousands of spent fuel rods. The United States has said an English-language statement from North Korea's foreign ministry might have been mistranslated to say it had already started reprocessing 8,000 nuclear rods. A later translation by US analysts, taken from a Korean-language statement, said Pyongyang was on the verge of reprocessing, not that the work had begun. It would be major escalation of the dispute, which was sparked last October when the US said North Korea had admitted to a secret nuclear programme.

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