IAEA calls on North Korea to re-admit nuclear inspectors

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

IAEA calls on North Korea to re-admit nuclear inspectors

November 22, 2018

VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog has called on North Korea to allow inspectors back in to monitor its nuclear program.

Speaking at a board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency Thursday, Director General Yukiya Amano noted that Pyongyang had in September talked about denuclearization measures including the “permanent dismantlement of the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon” — a reactor where it produces plutonium.

Amano said there has been activity observed at Yongbyon, but “without access the agency cannot confirm the nature and purpose of these activities.”

At a news conference later Thursday, he said he couldn’t elaborate on when exactly the activity was observed.

IAEA inspectors were expelled from North Korea in 2009 but Amano said the agency continues to prepare for their possible re-admittance.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/9c38cac82667431196d944a1bdb42b5b

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I misread the thread title as: IKEA calls on North Korea to re-admit nuclear inspectors.

OK, I'm a moron...

[soryang]

2. Very little activity at Yongbyon

North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center: 5 MWe Reactor Unlikely Operating

That's the title of the Nov. 16 article at 38 North.

and "There are no signs that the ELWR is operating. "

https://www.38north.org/2018/11/yongbyon111618/