from The Wall Street Journal
North Korea ordered International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors out of the country Tuesday. The decision ends international monitoring of a research reactor at Yongbyon and in theory could allow reprocessing of fuel rods to produce plutonium.
The on-again, off-again inspections at the 5-megawatt Experimental Nuclear Reactor Plant and the Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Plant at Yongbyon resumed in October, soon after the U.S. announced it would remove North Korea from the State Department list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
Kim says we have the basic plans made:
Former President Kim said he and then U.S. President Bill Clinton established a hotline between the White House and Cheong Wa Dae to tackle the situation.``Clinton proposed the hotline to have a secret conversation with me at any time. Due to wiretapping risks, the White House set it up directly at Cheong Wa Dae,'' Kim said.
``It still exists, but I wonder if it is being used these days.''Kim said he and Clinton talked over the phone at all hours.``Despite the time differences between Washington and Seoul, we called each other day and night to solve the North Korean nuclear issue. I did not care about answering the phone in bed and neither did Clinton,'' he said.
The location is well documented:
You can do a fly by in Google Earth.
North Korea P'yongan-bukto Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research CenterLink: I think Google maping is off a bit on its location, but maybe this is close enough.
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