Word: yongbyon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 allowed to reload spent surveillance cameras. Three smaller research facilities due for inspection have been off limits since...
North Korea is currently the gravest concern. Pyongyang signed the nonproliferation treaty in 1985 but grudgingly agreed only last year to allow inspectors to examine what it insisted was its purely civilian nuclear-power industry. When the monitors showed up, they confirmed intelligence reports that the installation at Yongbyon, north of the capital, had been processing plutonium at least since...
...North Korea does not open its doors this time, the agency will bare its teeth and press for an unprecedented U.N. Security Council-backed "special inspection" of two buildings suspected of storing nuclear waste. Reneging on earlier promises, the government barred agency officials from inspecting the sites at the Yongbyon nuclear complex for evidence of military application...