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After an 11-month standoff, North Korea has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it will permit inspection of seven nuclear sites. Not included in the arrangement: two sites in its Yongbyon complex believed to be waste dumps for weapons-grade plutonium. In a positive response, the South Korean Foreign Minister, Han Sung Joo, said the U.S. should reconsider its proposed deployment of Patriot missiles in South Korea...
WHAT IS NORTH KOREA DOING WITH ITS PLUTONIUM...
...agency will circulate a report this week detailing the agency's unsuccessful negotiations with North Korea over nuclear safeguards. Barring an eleventh-hour breakthrough, the report will say that those safeguards have broken down and that the IAEA is no longer sure what North Korea is doing with its plutonium stockpile. The iaea is likely to force the issue and refer the matter to the U.N. Security Council, which will then have to decide whether to impose sanctions on North Korea. Pyongyang has threatened to treat sanctions...
Military Blocks Plutonium Investigation...
Washington -- The Defense Department refuses to tell Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary exactly how much plutonium is used in its weapons around the world. O'Leary has been on a campaign to make public the government's uses and abuses of radiation and radioactive material over the years. However, Pentagon officials maintain that giving her information about the exact amount of plutonium used in the military's stockpile of strategic and tactical warheads would compromise security...