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IAEA Prepares for Return to Pyongyang

Posted Jul 9, 07 4:54 PM CDT in World,  Politics 

(Newser) – The International Atomic Energy Association has approved its mission to North Korea, and could be inside the pariah nation this week, the BBC reports. Officials will oversee the closure of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, a major concession the north made in February in exchange for economic and energy aid which has already begun trickling in to Pyongyang.

Last week marked the first time since the country expelled inspectors in 2002 that Western watchdogs have set foot in Yongbyon, which the IAEA estimates is capable of producing one atomic bomb a year. Northern officials have promised the UN organization that it will have full access to the reactor and other facilities.

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International Atomic Energy Agency Deputy Director Olli Heinonen is mobbed by the media as he arrives in Beijing Saturday, June 30, 2007. North Korea has moved a step closer to fulfilling a promise to...   (Associated Press)
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Olli Heinonen, left, deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), prepares to leave Pyongyang for Yongbyon Thrusday, June 28,...   (Associated Press)
North Korea's spent nuclear fuel rods kept in a cooling pond are seen at the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon, North Korea in this 1996 file photo, released from Yonhap, Feb. 7, 2003. U.N. nuclear monitors...   (Associated Press)
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