Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said here on Tuesday DPRK should be "open, honest and up front" about its nuclear program, and allow United Nations inspectors to return to the country.
DPRK had agreed to disable and dismantle key nuclear facilities and allow UN atomic inspectors to return, in exchange for fuel aid and its removal from a U.S. list of terrorist states. But Pyongyang announced last month it had halted plans to dismantle the facilities in protest at Washington's refusal to drop it from the blacklist of countries supporting terrorism.
Smith said that it was essential that North Korea honor the terms of an agreement reached in the six-party talks that also included South Korea, Russia, Japan, the U.S. and China.
"Well, so far as North Korea is concerned our very strong position is that North Korea should be open, honest and up front about its nuclear program," Smith said in a statement.
"It should comply with the Security Council resolutions. And it should comply with the verification measures requested by the International Atomic Energy Agency," he said.
Source: Xinhua
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