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The IAEA Board of Governors is meeting at the Agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Director General Yukiya Amano addressed the Board on important issues, including North Korea and Iran.

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The UN’s nuclear watchdog IAEA stated that the Agency has continued to monitor the DPRK’s nuclear programme, "using open source information and satellite imagery" and "has not observed any indications of the operation of the 5MW(e) reactor since early December 2018."

IAEA’s Director General Yukiya Amano today (04 Mar) briefed the Board of Governors in Vienna on the situation at Yongbyon as of the end of February. He said "at the Radiochemical Laboratory, we have not observed any indications of reprocessing activities. At the Light Water Reactor, the Agency saw indications of ongoing construction work. We also continued to observe indications of the ongoing use of the reported centrifuge enrichment facility.”

On the Agency’s verification and monitoring work in Iran, Amano said that “Iran is implementing its nuclear-related commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. It is essential that Iran continues to fully implement those commitments.”

He added “the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement. Evaluations regarding the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran continue.”

Amano continued “in implementing verification activities in Iran, the Agency analyses all safeguards-relevant information, which normally takes time, and takes action when appropriate.”

He added “the Agency undertakes analysis and takes action in an impartial, independent and objective manner, within the existing safeguards framework and in line with established safeguards practice.”