VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief leaves for North Korea on Sunday to broker a return of inspectors to the secretive Stalinist state under a precarious six-party pact to dismantle its atomic bomb programme.
A diplomat close to the International Atomic Energy Agency said IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei hoped to secure a timetable and terms for IAEA inspectors to verify a shutdown of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex, including its plutonium fuel plant, by mid-April -- centrepiece of the Feb. 13 accord.
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