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...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...
...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...
Before it comes to that, the West is trying to make North Korea back down. Hans Blix, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared that there was no longer any "meaningful assurance" that North Korea was using its nuclear materials for peaceful purposes, now that the IAEA surveillance equipment installed at the nuclear sites has run out of film and battery power. Pentagon officials caused jitters in Pyongyang by telling reporters they were weighing plans to reinforce the 37,000 American soldiers stationed in the South, deploy Patriot antimissile batteries or dispatch some aircraft carriers to bolster Seoul...
...Blix has the right to refer the dispute to the U.N. Security Council, which can punish a nuclear miscreant with sanctions that can range from a reprimand to an embargo, and ultimately to war. Three weeks ago, he told Washington he would begin the process this week if the North didn't start behaving. But the West decided to keep negotiating instead. "We're not talking in terms of a deadline," says an IAEA spokesman. Reason: fear of driving Pyongyang into a corner from which it would fight its way out. The North Koreans have threatened to resume plutonium reprocessing...