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<description><![CDATA[North Korea has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to return, three years after expelling its nuclear monitors, the agency said Monday. The U.S. said such a move would be welcome but remained critical of the North's rocket launch plans.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10763354-nkorea-invites-un-nuke-monitors-to-return</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/19/10763354-nkorea-invites-un-nuke-monitors-to-return</guid><category>nuclear</category><category>korea</category><category>north-korea</category><category>international-atomic-energy-agency</category><category>world-news</category><category>north-korea-nuclear</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:38:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c407a008-6ee2-476e-a1b9-f1c78a1a0b43.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c407a008-6ee2-476e-a1b9-f1c78a1a0b43.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A mock North Korean Scud-B missile, right, and other South Korean missiles are silhouetted at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, Monday, March 19, 2012. North Korea vowed Sunday to go ahead with plans to launch a long-range rocket, rejecting criticism in the West that it would scuttle recent diplomacy. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/af3b9f27-445d-4fc8-a911-c54ffd7704be.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/af3b9f27-445d-4fc8-a911-c54ffd7704be.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Foreign visitors take souvenir photos near a mock North Korean Scud-B missile, back left, and other South Korean missiles at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, Monday, March 19, 2012. North Korea vowed Sunday to go ahead with plans to launch a long-range rocket, rejecting criticism in the West that it would scuttle recent diplomacy. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/29b9da3b-23fe-44b1-a29c-a6677d6d0649.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="334" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/29b9da3b-23fe-44b1-a29c-a6677d6d0649.jpg" width="120" height="184" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Foreign visitors walk around mock North Korea's Scud-B missile, left, and other South Korean missiles at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, Monday, March 19, 2012. North Korea vowed Sunday to go ahead with plans to launch a long-range rocket, rejecting criticism in the West that it would scuttle recent diplomacy. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Scientist: NKorea likely to test nukes again</title>
<description><![CDATA[A U.S. scientist who visited a secret North Korean nuclear site last year says Pyongyang may seek to launch a third atomic test to enable it to develop a small fissile warhead that can be carried by a missile.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[George Jahn]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[George Jahn]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/09/7688617-scientist-nkorea-likely-to-test-nukes-again</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/09/7688617-scientist-nkorea-likely-to-test-nukes-again</guid><category>nuclear</category><category>north-korean</category><category>world-news</category><category>north-korea-nuclear</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:23:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/2511c5b7-89a6-4ec4-ae96-46ced415eabf.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/2511c5b7-89a6-4ec4-ae96-46ced415eabf.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Siegfried S. Hecker, a professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University delivers a speech during a seminar presented by the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation on &quot;North Korea: Reactors Bombs and People&quot; in Vienna, Austria, on  Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. The U .S. scientist who visited a secret North Korean nuclear site last year says Pyongyang may launch a third test atomic explosion to be able to develop a missile warhead. Sigfried Hecker says North Korea's second test in 2009 was necessary because their first attempt in 2006&quot;didn't work well.&quot;  He said Friday that if Pyongyang wants to prove that it can develop a small, technically advanced missile warhead &quot;they would need to have one more nuclear test.&quot; Hecker last year was invited to North Korea where he was shown a modern uranium enrichment plant that the North had previously denied possessing. Highly enriched uranium can be used for fissile warhead material.  (AP Photo/&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e74379e6-0705-4f71-8299-4e19644b9765.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="384" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e74379e6-0705-4f71-8299-4e19644b9765.jpg" width="120" height="160" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Siegfried S. Hecker, a professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University delivers a speech during a seminar presented by the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation on &quot;North Korea: Reactors Bombs and People&quot; in Vienna, Austria, on  Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. The U .S. scientist who visited a secret North Korean nuclear site last year says Pyongyang may launch a third test atomic explosion to be able to develop a missile warhead. Sigfried Hecker says North Korea's second test in 2009 was necessary because their first attempt in 2006&quot;didn't work well.&quot;  He said Friday that if Pyongyang wants to prove that it can develop a small, technically advanced missile warhead &quot;they would need to have one more nuclear test.&quot; Hecker last year was invited to North Korea where he was shown a modern uranium enrichment plant that the North had previously denied possessing. Highly enriched uranium can be used for fissile warhead material.  (AP Photo/&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a53334e9-83ba-4b42-94e9-c7319e0ef158.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="396" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a53334e9-83ba-4b42-94e9-c7319e0ef158.jpg" width="120" height="155" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Siegfried S. Hecker, a professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University delivers a speech during a seminar presented by the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation on &quot;North Korea: Reactors Bombs and People&quot; in Vienna, Austria, on  Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. The U .S. scientist who visited a secret North Korean nuclear site last year says Pyongyang may launch a third test atomic explosion to be able to develop a missile warhead. Sigfried Hecker says North Korea's second test in 2009 was necessary because their first attempt in 2006&quot;didn't work well.&quot;  He said Friday that if Pyongyang wants to prove that it can develop a small, technically advanced missile warhead &quot;they would need to have one more nuclear test.&quot; Hecker last year was invited to North Korea where he was shown a modern uranium enrichment plant that the North had previously denied possessing. Highly enriched uranium can be used for fissile warhead material.  (AP Photo/&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ba0d7b7a-31b8-40a7-b7fa-f3f09f895fe9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="460" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ba0d7b7a-31b8-40a7-b7fa-f3f09f895fe9.jpg" width="120" height="138" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Siegfried S. Hecker, a professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University delivers a speech during a seminar presented by the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation on &quot;North Korea: Reactors Bombs and People&quot; in Vienna, Austria, on  Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. The U .S. scientist who visited a secret North Korean nuclear site last year says Pyongyang may launch a third test atomic explosion to be able to develop a missile warhead. Sigfried Hecker says North Korea's second test in 2009 was necessary because their first attempt in 2006&quot; didn't work well.&quot;  He said Friday that if Pyongyang wants to prove that it can develop a small, technically advanced missile warhead &quot;they would need to have one more nuclear test.&quot; Hecker last year was invited to North Korea where he was shown a modern uranium enrichment plant that the North had previously denied possessing. Highly enriched uranium can be used for fissile warhead material.  (AP Photo&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>