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Bruce http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=106549 <http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=106549®ion=2> ®ion=2 IAEA WARNS IRAN, N KOREA 4.3.2005. 16:46:37 The United Nations atomic agency has called on North Korea to return to six-party talks on its nuclear program, after Pyongyang said "hostile" US policy was forcing it to make nuclear weapons. A statement from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expressed grave concern over North Korea's February 10 announcement saying it would "suspend its participation in the six-party talks for an indefinite period, and that it had manufactured nuclear weapons." North Korea said a moratorium on testing long-range missiles it had agreed to in 1999 when Bill Clinton was US president was rendered invalid by George W. Bush cutting off bilateral talks on missiles when he took office in 2001. The US on Thursday criticised North Korea's decision to end its missile-testing moratorium, saying the move threatened regional stability and deepened Pyongyang's isolation. An IAEA statement said the watchdog "strongly encouraged all the parties concerned to redouble their efforts to facilitate an early resumption of the six-party talks with a view to achieving a peaceful resolution of the DPRK (North Korea) nuclear issue." It also "urged the DPRK to completely dismantle any nuclear weapons program under credible international verification." The statement was written by the five nations on the IAEA board which are involved in the six-party talks - China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States. North Korea expelled IAEA inspectors in December 2002 and withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) the following month. During the regular agency meeting in Vienna on Thursday the IAEA also took Iran to task for lack of cooperation with international nuclear investigators. But the nuclear watchdog left room for EU-Iran talks that would seek guarantees from Tehran that it was not developing atomic weapons. However, Tehran is unlikely to yield on its right and intentions to make nuclear fuel, a potential sticking point with the IAEA. Claims emerged at the IAEA meeting that Iran was using reinforced materials and deep tunnels to store nuclear components, measures that would make its nuclear facility resistant to "bunker buster" bombs. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
