IAEA denied access to Yongbyon while US ponders on terror list removal

While the US pondered on the removal of North Korea from its sate terror list, IAEA has been denied access to the country's nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon plant. This is a response to US delays...

N Korea nuclear seals 'removed'

Recent reports that North Korea has relaunched its nuclear program, after initially agreeing to halt its progress in return for international aid, appear to be true. UN inspectors reported this morning that seals...

North Korea Pursues Restarting Atomic Plant

After finally starting to dismantle their Yongbyon nuclear complex, delayed for years under a disarmament-for-aid deal, North Korea asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to allow them to restart the...

North Korea 'to restore reactor'

With Kim Jong Il possibly near death's door, it looks like those around him assuming power could be hard-liners. The country has announced it is reversing the dismantling of a nuclear reactor and making...

Report: N. Korea preparing to restart reactor

"Report: N. Korea preparing to restart reactor" (CNN) -- North Korea is preparing to restart a reactor at the key Yongbyon nuclear complex, the South Korean news agency reported Thursday. ...

Friday meeting to clarify North Korean nuclear position

A meeting has been scheduled for Friday between United States and North Korean officials to clarify exactly what is going on with the Yongbyon nuclear facility.  The United States is looking for an explanation about reports out earlier in the week claiming the Yongbyon...

North Korea begins reassembling nuclear reactor

North Korea has reactivated its Yongbong nuclear reactor as it warned it would on August 26.  Kyodod, the Japanese news agency, confirms that reconstruction began on Monday. ""They've been threatening this move for some time," one U.S. official told Fox. Until now, he...

Angry North Korea threatens nuclear U-turn

North Korea is going through a denuclearizition and have halted the proccess becuase they refuse to be treated like they're on probabtion from the states,and have yet to submit to random inspections of their nuclear facilities."The communist nation said it halted the...

N Korea 'stops nuclear disabling'

"North Korea says it has stopped disabling its nuclear facilities, accusing the US of reneging on a six-party disarmament deal. Work was suspended on 14 August, a foreign ministry spokesman is quoted as telling the state news agency KCNA. North Korea says it took the step...

N. Korea destroys nuclear tower

" YONGBYON, North Korea - North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, blasting apart the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in a sign of its commitment to stop...

North korea Nuclear Move

After North Korean diplomats went to China this week, China has announced that North Korea intends to stop their nuclear program and that they will make a public declaration of its details. China’s Foreign...

Unusual nuclear contamination found in N.Korea - U.N.

The north of Korea may have nuclear weapons, but the leak that UN inspectors have discovered may be much more dangerous to global safety.  - The...

UN inspectors arrive in N Korea

"UN nuclear inspectors have arrived in Pyongyang, for talks on the closure of North Korea's main nuclear reactor. Pyongyang agreed to shut the Yongbyon plant under a deal reached in February. The head of the team, Olli Heinonen, said he was optimistic about the trip, but...

U.S. Extending North Korea Nuke Deadline

"The United States is willing to give North Korea a few more days to meet its commitments after Pyongyang appeared to miss a deadline Saturday to shutter a nuclear reactor, a senior U.S. official said. Under a February 13 multilateral deal, Pyongyang agreed to shut down its...

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