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| Axis of Evil |
| IAEA Chief to NKorea: Don't Expel Nuclear Monitors |
| 2002-12-14 |
| The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Saturday any move by North Korea to expel its inspectors from a controversial reactor site would seriously worsen the crisis over Pyongyang's atomic weapons ambitions. North Korea said on Thursday it was reactivating a Soviet-built nuclear energy research complex closed eight years ago under a pact with the United States aimed at stopping the reclusive Stalinist state from developing nuclear arms. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which had been monitoring the mothballed complex, said Pyongyang had asked it to unseal the plant and remove surveillance cameras. The continuing presence of the two IAEA inspectors on site was apparently not addressed, and agency director Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday it was important that North Korea let them stay. "If they throw out the inspectors, this will trigger a serious crisis," ElBaradei told Reuters. No doubt someone will issue a strong statement or something. This is all no doubt the fault of American simplisme, lumping these Communist yokels under the heading of an Axis of Evil simply because they're evil... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |