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North Korea heading toward further isolation, US says
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 15 - 04 - 2009


North Korea has taken a step toward further
isolation by ending its cooperation with UN and US nuclear inspectors
and requesting they leave the country, the US State Department said
Wednesday, according to dpa.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the US team in North
Korea to verify the disablement of the Stalinist country's nuclear
programme was making plans to leave at Pyongyang's request.
"In taking these decisions, the North is going to have to deal
with the consequences of such decisions," Wood said. "They just bring
upon themselves further isolation from the international community."
Wood would not discuss the consequences North Korea could face by
kicking out the inspectors, adding the issue will be taken up by the
United States and other countries involved in the six-nation
disarmament talks with Pyongyang.
"We all have that goal of trying to bring about a denuclearized
Korean peninsula. We want to see that happen," Wood said. "But,
again, the North took this decision. It's going to have to deal with
the consequences that flow from that decision."
The UN nuclear watchdog known as the International Atomic Energy
Agency also confirmed Wednesday that its inspectors were readying to
leave.
North Korea announced Tuesday that it would no longer participate
in the six-nation talks and would end the inspections in response to
a UN Security Council statement Monday condemning Pyongyang's April 5
rocket launch.
North Korea said the launch was to place a communications
satellite in space while the United States, Japan and South Korea
viewed it as a front for testing ballistic missile technology.
North Korea agreed in September 2005 to eliminate its nuclear
weapons programme in return for better diplomatic ties and
humanitarian aid. That agreement came about through six nation talks
involving China, Japan, Russia, the United States and two Koreas.


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