After the discovery of a covert nuclear program in Iraq in 1991, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) role transformed from promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy to verifying compliance with nonproliferation agreements. Over the next decade, the nuclear programs of three other countries - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Libya - further tested the IAEA's ability to locate nuclear weapons and dismantle them.
North Korean Rights Abuses May Be Crimes Against Humanity
On March 10, Marzuki Darusman, the United Nations investigator who uncovered violations in the totalitarian state of North Korea, told the Human Rights Council that his eight-year probe had uncovered nine systematic patterns of abuse.