European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse F t Uay world the sta8s and St pts n. Korea warns . On nuclear probe Tokyo api com Muni is North Korea sus peeled in the West of Irving to develop nuclear arms declared sunday that any attempt to Force it to accept a special in inspection could Lead to War in Korea. The in inner National atomic Energy Agency made the request for a special inspection after its inspectors were denied Access Early this month to two buildings at Yon Byon Mic of the North s nuclear Complex. North Korea contends the buildings Are unrelated military facilities that it is not obligated to allow Access to Agency inspectors. Should any special inspection or sanctions be imposed on us and our inviolable land violated by great Powers it would become a dangerous train plunging the whole Terr Ivory both the North and the South into the Scourge of War the official communist party newspaper Rodfong Shimun declared. Its commentary broadcast in part by the North s official korean Central news Agency was monitored in Tokyo the paper said great Power were trying to use the in. Security Council to Force the special inspection on North Korea Ai part of their moves to isolate and stamp out North Korea the bastion of social it added the United states cannot be justified in trying to Force an unreasonable special inspection1 on our Republic a non nuclear state staging nuclear War exercises like team spirit against it. Our people will never allow others to infringe on their National dignity and sovereignty their life and in 1992, the United states and South Korea cancelled their annual team spirit joint military exercises to encourage North South korean dialogue. Early last year the two Korea adopted a reconciliation agreement and a nuclear arms ban. So far however North Korea has refused to permit the inter korean nuclear inspections required under Fasching frights witches ride their brooms and bring carnival terror to Wald saturday. Carnival in the Black Forest Region reaches its Ell Kirch a Village near the Southern German City of Freiburg on Max on the weekend before Rose monday which Falls today. Rain triggers slides at philippine Volcano Legazpy Philippines a heavy rain sunday sent avalanches Down the slopes of the Mayon Volcano As steam Rose from the Crater. Scientists said the lava Deposit within the Crater also had expanded. The avalanches called Lahar sent rocks As big As 18 inches in diameter Down the Mab Init Channel but caused no significant property damage the philippine Institute of volcanology and seismology reported. The Institute said the avalanches indicated that it was too Early to allow More than 57,000 people to return to the Homes they left after the Volcano resumed activity this month. At least 68 people were killed during the first eruption feb. 2. A larger eruption followed 10 Days later but because of the earlier evacuations no one was killed. The Institute reported moderate to Strong emissions of steam sunday at the Volcano 220 Miles Southeast of Manila. The lava Deposit at the Crater continues to grow in size and appears to have moved further Down slope by 100 meters 330 feet the Institute said in a statement. Hazardous explosive eruption is pos sible within hours to Days the statement added. The Institute has been repeating that warning daily since feb. 12. On saturday acting gov. Danilo a Ana ordered mayors in seven addition Al towns near Mayon to be on a 24-hour watch and be ready for the possibility of mass evacuations. Ghost Buffer reportedly rids Bank of headless guest London a Coutts and co., Bankers to the British upper class secretly hired a spook specialist after employees reported sighting a headless figure in elizabethan dress the sunday Tele graph reported. Four receptionists on separate Occa Sions saw a ghostly Black figure in the atrium of the Bank s Central London Headquarters followed by a chilling drop in temperature the newspaper said. The Bank called in Eddie 13urks, a re tired Engineer and part time psychic consultant who was quoted As telling the newspaper he spoke to the ghost and persuaded it to leave the Bank. Turks said the ghost was a Nobleman who was beheaded near the Bank for re fusing to obey a Royal command. Coutts founded in 1692, has occupied the same premises since 1901. The weapon ban South Korea and the United states thus decided to resume the military Curci is this year. They describe the Eter Cosci us intended purely to improve the defences of South Korea which was invaded by the North in 1950, touching off a bloody three year War. The North had said repeatedly that its nuclear pro Gram is solely for peaceful purposes. Also sunday its official news Agency broadcast a response by North koreans ministry of atomic Energy Industry to the request for a special inspection. It said that what the atomic Energy Agency called an inconsistency was a mistake coming from a Hasty interpretation of the results of inspection not taking into detailed consideration the characteristic features of our facilities operation conditions and nuclear the Agency cannot Force nations to submit to special inspections but it can refer their cases to the Security Council. Radioactive dump perils Baltic sea Sillamae Estonia a sub merged in a shallow Pond is a toxic cock Tail of 4 million tons of radioactive waste separated from the Baltic sea by just an earthen Wall and a 65-foot strip of land. For decades russian workers at the adjacent Sillamae uranium processing Plant have dumped waste into the Pond. Now Independent Estonia has inherited the environmental Hazard but has neither the Money nor technology to clean it up. Estonia financially cannot solve thin problem properly said Henno Putnik a scientist at the estonian meteorological and hydrological unit. Russia must help. It s a moral question. It s their nuclear russian government has not offered to clean up the waste and russian officials at the Sillamae Plant said they will do nothing about it until scientific studies find it to be has so Many problems itself it is hardly in a position to help said Vlad Imir Nosov Laboratory chief at Siloam Etc. There is no evidence that the waste has contaminated ground water but Putnik said some radioactive material had leaked into the Gulf of Finland where it was quickly dispersed by the current. The most dangerous element in the noxious Stew is Radium which remains hazardous for hundreds of thousands of years. Estonian scientists worry about erosion of the earthen slopes Between the Pond and the Shore. The biggest danger is that it is so close to the sea Putnik said. There is a danger if the water level rises that the Waves will take the waste out to the estonian scientists Long suspected the russians were processing uranium at Sil Lamae but the Plant was off limits during soviet until Estonia won Independence in 1991 did its scientists gain Access to Sil Lamine. What they found was a huge uranium processing operation that began in the late 1940s.the Plant now owned by Estonia but run by russians is still operating but has fallen into disrepair. Twisted Metal litters the area next to the polluted Pond and new buildings remain unfinished for Lack of Averbukh the Plant s technical director said that he did not know How much nuclear fuel it had produced but that it could have been up to 50 percent of the soviet the estonians realized they could not handle the cleanup alone they sought help from Sweden and Finland to determine what must be done and How much it would Cost. Estimates of the Cost run to tens of millions of dollars
