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<text id=93TT1215>
<title>
Mar. 22, 1993: Inspection Lockout
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 22
WORLD
Inspection Lockout
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<p>North Korea withdraws from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty
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<p> North Korea's declaration of a state of "Semi-war" last
Monday seemed like one more propaganda rant, triggered by joint
U.S.-South Korean military exercises. A few days later,
Pyongyang raised the stakes when it announced that it was
pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. The decision
was a response to growing pressure by the International Atomic
Energy Agency to force inspection of two secret sites where
Western intelligence officials believe evidence of nuclear
weapons materials may be located. By withdrawing from the
treaty, the Kim Il Sung regime removed the legal basis for the
"special inspection" threatened by the IAEA. The pullout
intensified fears that North Korea may now be capable of
producing nuclear weapons; South Korea and Japan expressed
particular alarm. International trade sanctions might be
imposed, but that threat carries limited weight vis-a-vis North
Korea, already one of the world's most isolated economies.
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