UN inspectors to visit NKorea atomic reactor
Thursday, 28 June 2007
SEOUL, June 27 (AFP): UN inspectors are to visit the reactor at the centre of North Korea's nuclear programme in their first on-site inspection in nearly five years, the head of a team in the communist state said Wednesday.
The four-strong UN team had flown Tuesday into North Korea saying they were unsure if they would be allowed to visit the Yongbyon reactor, which produces the raw material for bomb-making plutonium.
That appears to have been resolved, the Japanese news agency Kyodo quoted Olli Heinonen, who is leading the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation, as saying.
The four-strong UN team had flown Tuesday into North Korea saying they were unsure if they would be allowed to visit the Yongbyon reactor, which produces the raw material for bomb-making plutonium.
That appears to have been resolved, the Japanese news agency Kyodo quoted Olli Heinonen, who is leading the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation, as saying.