N. Korea throws out UN monitors
North Korea has expelled UN monitors from its plutonium-making nuclear plant, Reuters is reporting.
Wednesday, 24.09.2008.
17:18
North Korea has expelled UN monitors from its plutonium-making nuclear plant, Reuters is reporting. Pyongyang also plans to start reactivating it next week, rowing back from a 2007 deal to scrap its atomic bomb program, officials said on Wednesday. N. Korea throws out UN monitors Olli Heinonen, the International Atomic Energy Agency's head of non-proliferation safeguards, told a closed meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors that monitors were forced to leave the plutonium facility this week. "There are no more seals and surveillance equipment in place at the (plutonium) reprocessing facility," IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said, referring to the most proliferation-sensitive installation at Yongbyon. "(North Korea) further stated that from here on, IAEA inspectors will have no further access to the reprocessing plant," she said, summarizing Heinonen's remarks. "(North Korea) also informed IAEA inspectors that they plan to introduce nuclear material to the reprocessing plant in one week's time," Fleming told reporters outside the Vienna meeting. Nuclear analysts have said North Korea would need several months at least to bring the installation back on line. Last month, North Korea said it planned to restart Yongbyon because it was angry at Washington for not taking it off its terrorism blacklist. In early September, it made minor but initial moves to restart the plant, U.S. officials said. Washington has said it will de-list Pyongyang once it allows inspectors to verify claims it made about nuclear arms output. Pyongyang wants a more flexible verification mechanism, analysts said. Before Yongbyon's shutdown, U.S. officials estimated North Korea had produced about 50 kg of plutonium, which experts said would be enough for six to eight nuclear weapons.
N. Korea throws out UN monitors
Olli Heinonen, the International Atomic Energy Agency's head of non-proliferation safeguards, told a closed meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors that monitors were forced to leave the plutonium facility this week."There are no more seals and surveillance equipment in place at the (plutonium) reprocessing facility," IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said, referring to the most proliferation-sensitive installation at Yongbyon.
"(North Korea) further stated that from here on, IAEA inspectors will have no further access to the reprocessing plant," she said, summarizing Heinonen's remarks.
"(North Korea) also informed IAEA inspectors that they plan to introduce nuclear material to the reprocessing plant in one week's time," Fleming told reporters outside the Vienna meeting.
Nuclear analysts have said North Korea would need several months at least to bring the installation back on line.
Last month, North Korea said it planned to restart Yongbyon because it was angry at Washington for not taking it off its terrorism blacklist. In early September, it made minor but initial moves to restart the plant, U.S. officials said.
Washington has said it will de-list Pyongyang once it allows inspectors to verify claims it made about nuclear arms output. Pyongyang wants a more flexible verification mechanism, analysts said.
Before Yongbyon's shutdown, U.S. officials estimated North Korea had produced about 50 kg of plutonium, which experts said would be enough for six to eight nuclear weapons.
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