The Democratic People's Republic of Korean (DPRK ) has decided to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the Isotope Production Laboratory in Yeongbyeon, North Pyeongan province.
The decision came at a conference last month in Austria between the IAEA and DPRK, a South Korean government official said Sunday.
The laboratory is not an indispensable nuclear facility but it had been closed to inspection. The decision means further progress in the implementation of the U.S.-DPRK Geneva Accord signed in 1994.
DPRK stressed that the nuclear problem should be solved only through the Geneva Accord and accused the United States of not fully abiding by its duty to build the North a light water reactor.
( December 3, 2001)
