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| US: N Korea will admit IAEA inspectors |
| 2010-12-22 |
| [Iran Press TV] A US envoy says Pyongyang has agreed to allow international inspectors to access its nuclear facilities to ensure their uranium enrichment activities are peaceful. New Mexico's governor Bill Richardson said North Korea would allow inspectors from the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to examine the country's Yongbyon nuclear complex, Rooters reported. "The specifics are that they will allow IAEA personnel to go to Yongbyon to ensure that they are not processing highly enriched uranium, that they are proceeding with peaceful purposes," Richardson told news hounds after arriving in the Chinese capital from Pyongyang. Concerns rose in November about the North's nuclear activities after the revelation of a uranium enrichment program, which Washington claimed could be a second route to making nuclear weapons. "I believe that's an important gesture on their part, but there still has to be a commitment eventually by the North Koreans to denuclearize, to abide by the 2005 agreement that says they will terminate their nuclear weapons activities," Richardson added. UN inspectors were previously in North Korea as part of a process that involved participation in multi-national nuclear disarmament talks in return for international aid -- a process that ran aground two years ago. Tensions between the Koreas hiked after an artillery exchange between the two neighbors on November 23, the first shelling of a civilian area in the South since the 1950-53 Korean War. The South launched rounds of joint military exercises with the United States despite warnings from the North, threatening to respond to the "provocations." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 "Send Hans Blix" For lunch. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-22 15:11 |
| #6 Heeeyyy, Macarana! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-12-22 12:40 |
| #5 Send Hans Blix |
| Posted by: CincinnatusChili 2010-12-22 11:56 |
| #4 The inspectors better bring their own rations, and have someone trustworthy watch them while they work. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-12-22 10:54 |
| #3 I think I saw this movie... .. it doesn't end well. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-12-22 04:43 |
| #2 I know, right back where we started from in what year, 1982? |
| Posted by: Mr. Bill 2010-12-22 01:17 |
| #1 Again? |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-12-22 00:23 |