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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Inspection Lockout
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- WORLD
- Inspection Lockout
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- <body>
- <p>North Korea withdraws from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty
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- <p> North Korea's declaration of a state of "Semi-war" last
- Monday seemed like one more propaganda rant, triggered by joint
- U.S.-South Korean military exercises. A few days later,
- Pyongyang raised the stakes when it announced that it was
- pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. The decision
- was a response to growing pressure by the International Atomic
- Energy Agency to force inspection of two secret sites where
- Western intelligence officials believe evidence of nuclear
- weapons materials may be located. By withdrawing from the
- treaty, the Kim Il Sung regime removed the legal basis for the
- "special inspection" threatened by the IAEA. The pullout
- intensified fears that North Korea may now be capable of
- producing nuclear weapons; South Korea and Japan expressed
- particular alarm. International trade sanctions might be
- imposed, but that threat carries limited weight vis-a-vis North
- Korea, already one of the world's most isolated economies.
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- </body>
- </article>
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