North Korea allows IAEA team to visit nuclear plant

TexasLawyer

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Thu Jun-28-07 12:24 AM
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North Korea allows IAEA team to visit nuclear plant

Source: Reuters

Thursday, June 28, 2007

North Korea allows IAEA team to visit nuclear plant

TOKYO: North Korea will allow a team of UN nuclear watchdog officials to visit the Yongbyon reactor it has agreed to shut down under a disarmament-for-aid deal, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation headed by Olli Heinonen is already in Pyongyang, capital of the secretive communist state, to negotiate terms for inspectors to monitor the shutdown. “Tomorrow, we’re going to Yongbyon,” Kyodo quoted Heinonen as saying. He said the team would return to Pyongyang on Friday.

The reactor is the source of bomb-grade plutonium for North Korea, which conducted its first nuclear test last year.

Pyongyang expelled IAEA inspectors in December 2002, left the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty shortly afterwards and, in 2005, announced it had nuclear weapons.

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Read more: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\06\28\story_28-6-2007_pg4_6

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Eagle_Eye

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Thu Jun-28-07 05:13 AM
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1. And the bush administration blindly believes North Korea is out of the A-bomb business

Edited on Thu Jun-28-07 05:13 AM by Eagle_Eye

Bush will leave yet another mess for the next Democratic President to clean up.

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Eugene

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Fri Jun-29-07 08:22 AM
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2. "Understanding" on North Korea reactor shutdown: report

Source: Reuters

"Understanding" on North Korea reactor shutdown: report

1 hour, 56 minutes ago

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog officials reached
an "understanding" with North Korea on verification of the
shutdown and sealing of the North's Yongbyon reactor,
Kyodo news agency said on Friday.

The head of the U.N. delegation said he was "satisfied" with
a tour of a North Korean reactor complex that the secretive
state has promised to scrap under an aid-for-disarmament
deal, Kyodo said.

The reactor at Yongbyon was still operating, International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Safeguards Director
Olli Heinonen was also quoted as saying on his return to
Pyongyang.

The visit to the Yongbyon reactor, about 100 km (60 miles)
north of Pyongyang, is the first by IAEA officials since
Pyongyang kicked out the Vienna-based agency's inspectors
in December 2002.

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