N.Korea asks U.N. to back off from nuclear site: IAEA

VIENNA-North Korea asked the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog on Monday to remove seals and cameras from its main atomic complex, the agency's chief said, after vowing to restart the facility-reversing a nuclear disarmament deal.A senior diplomat close to the International Atomic Energy Agency said seals had since been removed but did not elaborate. An IAEA official could not confirm that development and said efforts were being made to clarify the situation. North Korea said on Friday it was working to reactivate the plutonium-producing Yongbyon complex, basis of its atomic bomb program, which it had been dismantling since last November under a disarmament-for-aid deal that was rocky from the start.The maverick Stalinist state's foreign ministry said steps were under way to restore Yongbyon to its "original state". Diplomats say that would take at least several months and probably longer since the complex was now largely broken up."This morning (North Korea) asked the agency's inspectors to remove seals and surveillance equipment to enable them to carry out tests at the reprocessing plant, which they say will not involve nuclear material," IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei told a meeting of the U.N. watchdog's Board of Governors.A senior diplomat close to the IAEA told Reuters: "Seals have been taken off."
REACTOR STILL SHUT DOWN
ElBaradei said: "Agency inspectors have observed that some equipment previously removed by North Korea during the disablement process has been brought back. This has not changed the shutdown status of the nuclear facilities at Yongbyon.
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