§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if North Korea has yet agreed to International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of all seven nuclear facilities in the country.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggOn 15 February, North Korea agreed to the IAEA's requirements for inspection at each of its seven declared nuclear facilities. However, on 21 March, the IAEA director general stated that the inspections, carried out between 3 and 14 March, had not permitted the agency to conclude that nuclear material had not been diverted for military use in North Korea since February 1993. Agency inspectors had not been allowed to carry out previously agreed inspection activities at one of the facilities. On 31 March, the president of the UN Security Council issued a statement calling on North Korea to comply fully with its safeguards agreement.