IAEA head in N.Korea as nuclear diplomacy heats up
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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog arrived in North Korea on Tuesday on a landmark visit, hopeful of making progress on closing its atomic facilities, but U.S. officials sounded a more cautious note.
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How to verify that North Korea is shutting down its main nuclear reactor will dominate the agenda for a rare U.N. visit this week to the communist nation, a senior nuclear monitor said Monday.
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UN inspectors are expected Thursday to visit the reactor at the centre of North Korea&#39;s nuclear programme in their first on-site inspection in nearly five years, the head of the team said.
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Olli Heinonen, chief inspector of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, set out for North Korea on Sunday to agree details on the return of IAEA inspectors to monitor Pyongyang's promised atomic shutdown.
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A team of UN inspectors travelled Thursday to North Korea&#39;s key atomic reactor to assess the size of the task they will face in monitoring its shutdown under a nuclear disarmament deal.
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The head of the UN nuclear agency arrived Tuesday in Pyongyang hoping to win North Korea&#39;s permission for his inspectors to return to the country, four years after they were kicked out.
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VIENNA -- In a fresh sign of easing tensions, North Korean officials yesterday invited the chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency to come to their capital, Pyongyang, next month to develop plans aimed at dismantling the nation's nuclear weapons program, officials said here.
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Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), left Vienna for a visit to South Korea on Saturday to discuss Seoul&#39;s secret nuclear research.
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U.N. inspectors headed to North Korea's key nuclear reactor Thursday for the first time since 2002 to discuss plans to shut the plutonium-producing facility under an international accord.
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in South Korea on Sunday amid concerns over the country&#39;s past nuclear experiments.
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A team of U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea headed on Thursday for the Yongbyon nuclear plant that Pyongyang has promised to mothball under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.
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The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog will be in Seoul next week, a ministry said on Thursday, for a trip that comes as momentum is building for a shutdown of North Korea's nuclear reactor to be overseen by his agency.
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North Korea&#39;s top nuclear negotiator was reportedly &quot;too busy&quot; Wednesday to meet the head of the UN atomic watchdog, who was in Pyongyang seeking action on the Stalinist state&#39;s nuclear pledges.
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A U.N. nuclear watchdog team prepared to leave for North Korea on Tuesday to negotiate terms for inspectors to confirm the shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear reactor and source of bomb-grade plutonium.
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North Korea has invited a delegation of the United Nations nuclear watchdog to visit the country in what could be a first step towards implementing an international agreement intended to curb its nuclear program.
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Senior U.N. inspectors will arrive in North Korea on Tuesday to agree steps in verifying a promised shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme, the  International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday.
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The head of the UN nuclear agency urges diplomacy as the primary means of tackling Iran's nuclear aims.