The head of the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency called for talks with both North Korea and Iran to resolve the issues of their nuclear programs. “If I look at the problems that we are facing right now-the Korean situation, the Iran situation-these problems hinge, in my view, on the parties sitting together,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Mohamed ElBaradei said in an interview with Newsweek magazine ahead of his meeting Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington. “We need to move away from the idea that dialogue is a ‘reward' for good behavior. You need dialogue when you have bad behavior because the purpose of the dialogue is to change the behavior, ” ElBaradei said.
