SEOUL, South Korea - The United Nations (news - web sites) nuclear watchdog will send a group of inspectors to South Korea (news - web sites) this week to help it complete a report in November on Seoul's secret past nuclear experiments, a South Korean official said Sunday.
Cho Chung-won, director-general at South Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology, said a five-member inspection team from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency will make a six-day visit beginning Tuesday.
"The third round of investigation will become the final probe before drawing up a report for the IAEA's board of governors on Nov. 25," Cho said, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
Suspicions about South Korea's nuclear activities spiked after the country recently admitted conducting a plutonium-based nuclear experiment in 1982 and a uranium-enrichment experiment in 2000.
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