WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The world ought to be cautious to make sure the standoff with Iran over its nuclear programme doesn’t change into like North Korea, which expelled U.N. inspectors earlier than testing nuclear weapons, U.N. atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi stated on Monday.
“We now have to deploy each effort to forestall this downside, this present debate on what is going on and what might be achieved in Iran (from) turning into a failure on the a part of the worldwide group to forestall a rustic that has capabilities which may probably result in the event of nuclear weapons from doing it,” he informed a U.S. State Division convention.
“We noticed the failure of this sort within the Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea, North Korea.”
(Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Writing by Francois Murphy; Modifying by Chris Reese)
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