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| U.N. Sends Nuclear Inspectors to S. Korea |
| 2004-10-31 |
| The United Nations nuclear watchdog will send a group of inspectors to South Korea this week to help it complete a report in November on Seoul's secret past nuclear experiments, a South Korean official said Sunday. Cho Chung-won, director-general at South Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology, said a five-member inspection team from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency will make a six-day visit beginning Tuesday. "The third round of investigation will become the final probe before drawing up a report for the IAEA's board of governors on Nov. 25," Cho said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency. Suspicions about South Korea's nuclear activities spiked after the country recently admitted conducting a plutonium-based nuclear experiment in 1982 and a uranium-enrichment experiment in 2000. South Korea has repeatedly said its experiments were part of scientific research, and has expressed hope that the case ends at the board of governors' meeting, and is not referred to the U.N. Security Council. The revelations threatened to disrupt already troubled efforts to persuade communist North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program. North Korea has cited the revelations about South Korean nuclear activities as a major reason it is reluctant to join six-nation talks aimed at ending the communist North's nuclear weapons program. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
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| Posted by: .com 2004-10-31 10:35:18 AM |
| #4 The UN only works against those countries, like South Korea, that follow the rules. Those that don't, like North Korea, tell them to bugger off and they do. Then they blame the US for the whole thing. What a malicious, mendacious, meretricious, salacious, pathetically incompetent group of self-promoting parasites! The UN bureaucracy should be expelled from the US as undesirable aliens and the UN building complex converted to public housing. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-10-31 10:04:28 AM |
| #3 Perfect illustration of why the UN is corrupt and only serves to legitimize tyrants. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-10-31 8:26:52 AM |
| #2 Yup. Wrong Korea Shep. I was going to say the UN never fails to amaze me but on second thought they are quite predictable. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2004-10-31 5:55:50 AM |
| #1 surly they've got the wrong korea here, guess its easy for them to bollock the south while leaving the north to carry on, what a piss take eh. |
| Posted by: Shep UK 2004-10-31 4:58:25 AM |