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...REPORTED. SOUTH KOREA's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements; in a confidential memo given to the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors; in Vienna, Austria. The report found that Seoul failed to fully disclose details of its nuclear experiments to the IAEA from 1982 to 2000 and had conducted more extensive tests than suspected. The agency must now decide whether to bring South Korea before the U.N. Security Council for the lapses...
...when they left al-Qaqaa, nor did they destroy the ordnance, in part because their orders were to get to Baghdad and find evidence of Saddam's purported arsenal of unconventional weapons. Looters soon descended on al-Qaqaa and pilfered the remaining weaponry, ammunition and equipment. In late April IAEA's chief weapons inspector for Iraq warned the U.S. of the vulnerability of the site, and in May 2003, an internal IAEA memo warned that terrorists could be looting "the greatest explosives bonanza in history." Seventeen months later, on Oct. 10, in response to a long-standing request from...
...Bush team's explanations failed to solve the riddle. First, Pentagon officials produced a satellite photo from March 17, 2003, showing two Iraqi trucks lingering outside an al-Qaqaa bunker. The photo proves that there was activity by the former regime at the site sometime between the final IAEA inspection and the arrival of U.S. troops. But a Pentagon spokesman admitted he had no idea what kind of activity took place or even if the trucks were in an area where HMX, RDX and PETN were stored. Then a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense suggested that Russian units may have...
...tons of explosives Saddam is believed to have possessed--meaning that there are still 248,000 tons of unaccounted-for explosives. While much of that is in the form of artillery shells that make ideal roadside bombs, little of it is as powerful as the IAEA-sealed stockpile at al-Qaqaa...
...IAEA is also investigating an experiment carried out in 2000 at a sophisticated lab on KAERI's sprawling campus south of Seoul. Earlier this year, after South Korea ratified a new protocol giving the IAEA broader inspection powers, Seoul told the agency that scientists at the institute had used lasers to enrich uranium. Uranium used in fuel rods is lightly enriched, usually less than 5%. During the 2000 experiment, however, researchers produced uranium that was 77% enriched, or nearly weapons grade. Seoul characterized the laser experiment as independent research carried out by curious scientists who then neglected to report...