North Korean Ban on Atomic Samples Harms Verification Process
North Korea’s bar on international inspectors taking soil and waste samples from its reactor undermines efforts to check the communist state’s nuclear program, South Korea’s foreign minister said.
The U.S. removed North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism in October after the communist state agreed to inspections of its Yongbyon nuclear plant and other locations suspected of being part of the regime’s atomic program.
