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VIENNA, Sept 22 (KUNA) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency adopted
late Friday a resolution denouncing North Korea for its continued nuclear
activity and urging it to abide by the atomic Non Proliferation Treaty
safeguards.
The resolution condemned Pyongyang's non-cooperation with the IAEA to
ensure the peacefulness of it nuke program.
It also "calls upon (North Korea) to come into full compliance" with the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and abide by U.N. Security Council
resolutions.
The UN nuke watchdog also "strongly urged" North Korea to abandon its
nuclear weapons program.
The text adopted without a vote by the General Conference of the 155-nation
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also called on North Korea, which is
not a member of the Vienna-based U.N. agency, not to carry out a new nuclear
test.
It also demands North Korea fulfill its commitments made under the Sept.
19, 2005, deal with its five dialogue partners in the six-party talks. In the
2005 joint statement, Pyongyang agreed to abandon its nuclear program in
return for political and economic incentives.
Following a Feb. 29 agreement with the United States, Pyongyang invited an
IAEA delegation to visit there to "discuss technical issues with regard to the
monitoring of moratorium on uranium enrichment activities" in its main nuclear
site in Yongbyon.
At the end of March, the IAEA replied that it was willing to follow up on
North Korea's invitation "in a constructive spirit."
The so-called Leap Day deal, however, was virtually annulled when Pyongyang
launched a long-range rocket in April.
North Korea has since rejected cooperation with the IAEA. Pyongyang
expelled IAEA monitors from Yongbyon in 2009.(end)
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