North Korea bars international inspectors from nuclear facility

North Korea has barred international inspectors from a nuclear reprocessing plant that produces weapons-grade plutonium and intends to restart activity there in a week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday.
The decision by the North is a serious setback both for the Bush administration and an international agreement aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program. It seemed to be a provocative signal to the United States and the other governments involved in the diplomacy that the North would no longer honor a hard-won agreement to dismantle the site in exchange for diplomatic incentives and aid.

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N. Korea spent months waiting for the USA to take the country off it's terror watchlist which was part of the deal for shutting down the reactor and its processing facilities. As usual the US government renaged on it so what do they expect!!