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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...
...dispute is heating up. Hans Blix, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is expected to tell the U.N. this week that North Korea's violation of international nuclear safeguards is "continuing and widening." In addition to blocking inspections of two secret sites to which the IAEA demanded access last February, Pyongyang is now refusing to allow even routine monitoring of five declared nuclear sites at Yongbyon, 65 miles north of the capital, and two other sites elsewhere. At a 5-MW power reactor whose fuel core could be mined for plutonium to make bombs, IAEA inspectors are not being...
...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 and their atomic-weapons program if the U.S. breaks off talks over the stalled inspections. That threat seems real. Even the flashlight search...
...rescued, officials have held a series of meetings in New York City since September, mostly at U.N. headquarters and at least once in a fashionable coffee shop. "But there has been no socializing," says one official. The U.S. insists that Pyongyang live up to its promises to permit formal IAEA inspections and exchange envoys with South Korea for more nuclear talks. If it does, Washington will resume formal talks and offer some carrots: the possibility of diplomatic ties, and even economic aid and investment -- tempting to a country where many people can afford only one meal a day and soap...
...growing pressure by the International Atomic Energy Agency to force inspection of two secret sites where Western intelligence officials believe evidence of nuclear weapons materials may be located. By withdrawing from the treaty, the Kim Il Sung regime removed the legal basis for the "special inspection" threatened by the IAEA. The pullout intensified fears that North Korea may now be capable of producing nuclear weapons; South Korea and Japan expressed particular alarm. International trade sanctions might be imposed, but that threat carries limited weight vis-a-vis North Korea, already one of the world's most isolated economies...