North Korea says its new uranium enrichment plant is designed solely to produce energy. The ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Wednesday said construction of a light water reactor is actively underway. It said to ensure fuel supply to the reactor, a modern uranium enrichment plant equipped with thousands of centrifuges is in normal operation. The newspaper blamed the US for failing to honour a 1994 accord to build light-water reactors for the North, in exchange for the shutdown of the plutonium-producing reactor. Last month, North Korea disclosed the plant to visiting US experts heightening regional security fears. US officials and experts have said it could easily be converted to produce weapons-grade uranium. The US State Department has said the North has at least one other uranium enrichment site in addition to the one it disclosed.