| | U.N. Security Council Consideration of North Korea's Violations of its Nuclear Treaty Obligations |
 | | However, North Korea claimed a special status under the NPT as a result of its suspended withdrawal, and it continued to bar both the special inspection and regular inspections under the safeguards agreement. |
 | | IAEA inspectors, who were in North Korea March 3-14, reported that North Korean officials had prevented them from conducting two types of inspection procedures (collecting samples of materials and a gamma ray scan) in North Korea's plutonium reprocessing plant at Yongbyon, the site of key nuclear installations. |
 | | U.N. member nations are required, by article 25 of the U.N. Charter, to implement Council sanctions, imposed under Chapter VII of the Charter, and the Council normally creates a committee of the whole to monitor implementation of the sanctions resolution. |
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