1.   The only effective countermeasure to such activities is international inspection of all the nuclear facilities on Earth.

2.   He called upon the North to close its nuclear reprocessing and enrichment facilities and to submit its nuclear programme to international inspection.

3.   It also stated that it would sign an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency before the end of January which would allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities.

4.   He suggested that Israel give up its nuclear weapons and submit, with its neighbours, to international inspection to keep the region nuclear-free.

5.   Argentina and Brazil had also relinquished a nuclear option, and international inspection standards of atomic sites were strengthened.

6.   But he said the U.S. Atomic Energy Act prohibits the United States from transferring samples of bomb-grade plutonium and uranium even to an international inspection agency.

7.   But the Pentagon and the Energy Department are reluctant to cede too much ground to international inspection, she said.

8.   But the two nations reached an accord in October calling for North Korea to freeze its nuclear program, allow international inspections and eventually dismantle its remaining nuclear sites.

9.   Concern at the United Nations that ostensibly international inspections benefited US intelligence threatens to undermine the basis for administration policy on Iraq.