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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Mohamed ElBaradei urged on Sunday North Korea to allow IAEA inspection team to visit the site and validate that there had been no nuclear activities. In an interview with the CNN, ElBaradei said, "I think it's unlikely (that the explosion was caused by a nuclear weapons test), but we are not there and we cannot validate this conclusion for sure." He also said "there is no doubt North Korea has the capability to produce nuclear weapon," and added, "If North Korea would like to exclude that possibility completely, they would be well advised to allow us and other experts to go and inspect." He also pointed out that North Korea had the plutonium needed to produce nuclear weapons and they had not allowed any inspections for the past two years. "I do not exclude at all that they have assembled a nuclear weapon or more than one nuclear weapon. That would not surprise me," he added.
(Yoon Hee-young, hyyooon@chosun.com )
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