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...North Korea coming out of a store, you think he must have stolen something," says Baek. "They didn't want that to happen again." In any event, the International Atomic Energy Agency was directing more of its concern last week toward Iran, which was ordered to stop working on uranium enrichment, and South Korea, which admitted conducting nuclear experiments and other possible violations of its nonproliferation pledges. Until South Korea explains what its scientists are up to, North Korea said it would boycott the next round of multinational talks, due to start this month, on its own nuclear program...
Nuclear Showdown IRAN Days after the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved a resolution demanding that Iran suspend all uranium-enrichment activities, a defiant Tehran announced that it had started the conversion of some 37 tons of uranium oxide (yellowcake) into UF6-gas - the feed material for enriched uranium. Iran denies its enrichment efforts are part of a weapons program, claiming they are for electricity generation, which the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) permits. A senior official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Hossein Mousavian, argued that " Iran cannot be subjected only to the limitations of the treaty...
...enemy, says the President - conservative columnist Robert Novak claims administration sources have told him the Bush administration plans to withdraw from Iraq next year. (This being the same Robert Novak through whom senior administration officials allegedly named Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson of Niger uranium probe fame, as a CIA agent.) Novak says his administration sources tell him that Iraq's election, scheduled for January, will be used as a pretext for withdrawing, even though the insurgency will still be raging and civil war will result. While some of what Novak's sources have told him sounds...
...Respite from the big storms might not come until Nov. 30, when the all-too-memorable 2004 hurricane season finally recedes into history. - By J. Madeleine Nash A Watchful Eye UNITED NATIONS The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, called on Iran to immediately cease all uranium enrichment-related activities at a key meeting of the 35 nation group in Vienna . Iran, which denied U.S. claims that its enrichment activities were part of a weapons program and insisted that its program is for peaceful energy production, said it would consider the request. The IAEA will review Iran...
...electricity, which translates into a vast industry of power plants, government-run research labs?and a whole lot of hot fuel rods. But it is also a major player in the six-nation talks that are trying to arm-twist North Korea into shuttering its own uranium- and plutonium-based nuclear-weapon programs. After hearing the South's explanations, Pyongyang quickly trumpeted a "double standard." Then came news that the South had noticed an enormous explosion in North Korea last week, though the source was unclear...