Posts Tagged ‘Pyongyang’

NKorea re-admits UN monitors to atom site

October 14th, 2008

VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea restored access on Monday for U.N. monitors to its plutonium-producing nuclear complex, a day after pledging to resume work to disable it in a deal with the United States, diplomats told Reuters.
“The (International Atomic Energy Agency) inspectors can access all facilities at Yongbyon again, including the reprocessing plant,” said one [...]

IAEA: NKorea renews UN access to nuclear site

October 14th, 2008

By GEORGE JAHN
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — North Korea declared Monday that it will resume shutting down its nuclear program and allow U.N. experts to monitor the process, including making sure the plant that produced plutonium for its test bomb remains disabled.
The moves, revealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, were a strong indication that Pyongyang [...]

North Korea invites US nuclear inspectors back

October 14th, 2008

Vienna (dpa) - North Korea allowed international inspectors back into its nuclear facilities Monday, two days after the United States struck the country from its terrorism blacklist, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
In addition, the reclusive Stalinist state said it would resume disabling the Yongbyong nuclear complex on Tuesday by continuing to remove nuclear [...]

North Korea Pledges to Restart Nuclear Reactor

September 19th, 2008

By Kurt Achin
Seoul
A senior North Korean official says his country is beginning to restore a disabled nuclear facility capable of producing weapons material. Pyongyang says the United States has not fulfilled obligations under a multinational agreement to get rid of the North’s nuclear weapons. VOA’s Kurt Achin reports from Seoul.
North Korean diplomat Hyun Hak Bong [...]