Word: blix
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...nuclear-power plants that produce weapons-grade plutonium in exchange for a big payoff: free fuel oil and $4 billion (mostly put up by South Korea and Japan) to build safer light-water reactors that yield a type of plutonium more difficult to fashion into atom bombs. Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, complained about a "long and complex, difficult road" to be traveled during the five years it will take before Pyongyang opens its suspect sites to inspection. Bringing the accord into full effect will take a decade. Some critics called the pact a bribe...
...together before being cooled in water-filled ponds. If, in the future, inspectors could analyze a large sample of them, they might come up with approximate readings of plutonium output, but they could not know the reactor's production history with complete certainty. "It is too late," insisted Hans Blix, head of the IAEA. "We cannot exclude ((the possibility)) that material has been diverted...
...sanctions may never be imposed. They were put on the Security Council agenda when a letter from Blix declared his inspection had been stymied. In Europe, Clinton observed that the inspection battle was five years old. Now, he said, "North Korea's actions have made it virtually imperative that the Security Council consider sanctions." But, he added, "I do not want a lot of saber rattling over this." That was not quite a ringing call for action, but U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said she would immediately start consulting with other members of the Security Council about "the timing, the objectives...
...Hans Blix, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported last October that "in all essential aspects, the nuclear-weapons program is mapped and has been destroyed through the war or neutralized thereafter." Rolf Ekeus, chairman of the U.N. monitoring team, believes Baghdad's chemical programs have been dismantled. Ekeus is also confident that his men have accounted for all 890 Scud-B missiles Iraq bought from the Soviet Union during the 1970s and '80s. But he still has doubts that Iraq has destroyed its biological-weapons program...
...agency's decision on whether North Korea had complied with the treaty terms was crucial. Director-General Hans Blix reported the truncated inspection prevented "any meaningful conclusion" about whether the North had diverted nuclear material for possible use in weapons. That was enough for the agency to turn the matter over to the U.N. Security Council. The council has the power to impose economic sanctions on the North for its recalcitrance. But since China, Pyongyang's friend, is still likely to veto any such measures, the U.N. at present does not have the inclination...