World IN BRIEF : NORTH KOREA : Regime Threatens to Halt Inspections
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
U.N. nuclear inspectors left North Korea without checking everything they wanted, and the Pyongyang regime threatened to halt inspections over a dispute with Washington. South Korean news reports said the inspectors were denied access to a radio chemical laboratory suspected of being used to extract plutonium, a key component of nuclear warheads. The North Koreans have denied working on atomic weapons.
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