North Korea Special Collection

IAEA-North Korea: Nuclear Safeguards and Inspections 1995

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29 March 1995

The IAEA Board of Governors asks North Korea to permit IAEA inspectors to measure the amount of plutonium in the spent fuel of its 5MW gas-graphite reactor and in the waste from its radiochemical lab [reprocessing facility]. It also requests that the Agency be allowed to verify the freeze on North Korea's nuclear facilities.

Yonhap (Seoul), 30 March 1995; in FBIS-EAS-95-061, 30 March 1995.

12 June 1995

IAEA Director General Hans Blix informs the IAEA Board of Governors that North Korea has serviced its 5MW gas-graphite reactor and is expected to do the same at its radiochemcial lab [reprocessing facility].

KBS-1 (Seoul), 12 June 1995; in FBIS-EAS-95-112, 12 June 1995.

15-20 September 1995

The IAEA sends a team of inspectors to North Korea to monitor its compliance with the NPT and the 21 October 1994 Agreed Framework. The IAEA requests that it be allowed to expand its monitoring activities in North Korea and improve its technical capability to confirm that North Korea's maintenance of the 5MW gas-graphite reactor at Yongbyon and the plutonium processing facility does not reflect an attempt to revive its nuclear program.

Arms Control Today, October 1995, p.22.

22 September 1995

Member states attending the IAEA General Conference adopt a resolution concerning nuclear safeguards in North Korea. The resolution calls on North Korea to cooperate with the IAEA to "preserve intact" all data pertinent to determining the "accuracy and completeness" of North Korea's original nuclear inventory report until North Korea "comes into full compliance with the safeguards agreement." In his opening statement, IAEA Director General Hans Blix tells the conference that unresolved concerns include the disposition of nuclear spent fuel from North Korea's 5MW gas-graphite reactor and installation of waste tank monitoring equipment at its reprocessing plant.

IAEA Press Release (Vienna), 22 September 1995; in FBIS-TAC-95-005, 22 September 1995; Nuclear Proliferation News, 12 October 1995, pp.1-3.

25 September 1995

IAEA Director General Hans Blix reports to a special IAEA Board of Governors meeting that North Korea has denied the IAEA permission to measure the amount of plutonium in the 8,000 spent fuel rods or in the liquid-waste at its radiochemical lab [reprocessing facility]. Blix says that North Korea agreed only to allow IAEA inspectors to determine if the fuel rods were irradiated and to photograph the radiochemical lab. North Korea has indicated that it will make the examination of plutonium contingent upon progress in negotiations for a light-water reactor supply contract.

KBS-1 Radio Network (Seoul), 26 September 1995; in FBIS-EAS-95-186, 26 September 1995; Yonhap (Seoul), 12 September 1995; in FBIS-EAS-95-176, 12 September 1995.

13 October 1995

IAEA Director General Hans Blix says in a report to the UN Security Council that North Korea has denied the IAEA inspectors permission to evaluate the plutonium levels in the nuclear spent fuel. Blix adds that North Korea has only provided the IAEA with minimal access to its Yongbyon nuclear facilities.

KBS-1 Radio Network (Seoul), 14 October 1995; in FBIS-EAS-95-202, 14 October 1995.

1 November 1995

The UN General Assembly passes a resolution urging North Korea to cooperate with the IAEA to allow the successful implementation of its nuclear safeguards agreement.

Yonhap (Seoul), 2 November 1995; in FBIS-EAS-95-216, 2 November 1995.

Acknowledgements:
Brooke Milton and Gaurav Kampani
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies,
Monterey Institute of International Studies

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