N. KOREA WILL QUIT NUCLEAR PACT

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DATE: FRIDAY, March 12, 1993                   TAG: 9303120120
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TOKYO                                LENGTH: Short
N. KOREA WILL QUIT NUCLEAR PACT
North Korea declared Friday it would withdraw from an international nuclear-control accord, which the West charges the Communist nation has violated by attempting to develop nuclear weapons.
The announcement, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, said North Korea was pulling out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to defend its own interests.
"The withdrawal . . . is a well-justified self-defensive measure against the nuclear war maneuvers of the United States and the unjust act" of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the news agency report, monitored in Tokyo.
North Korea earlier rejected a Feb. 25 ultimatum from the Vienna, Austria-based IAEA giving it one month to accept special inspections of two sites suspected of being nuclear waste dumps.
- Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB