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North Korea rejects nuclear sampling
North Korea says Pyongyang will not allow the inspectors to take samples from its main nuclear complex to verify its past activities. North Korea says Pyongyang will not allow the inspectors to take samples from its main nuclear complex to verify its past activities.A Wednesday Foreign Ministry statement said a request for samples from main Pyongyang nuclear complex would be considered as a breach of Pyongyang's sovereignty, the official Korea Central News Agency reported. "It is an act of infringing upon sovereignty little short of seeking a house-search... to insist on adding even a word except the written agreement," it read. The statement was released following Washington's request for soil samples. North Korea has agreed to halt all its nuclear activity in exchange for aid and economic concessions following a six-nation agreement. The countries involved in the six-party process are North and South Korea, Russia, China, Japan and the US. The deal appeared on the verge of collapse a few weeks ago when North Korea threatened to restart its nuclear program, after the US failed to remove the country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. The collapse, however, was narrowly averted in late October when the US announced it was removing the North from the list after Washington and Pyongyang reached a new compromised deal. Posted by: Fred 2008-11-13 |
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