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SEOUL, South Korea — Voicing dismay over North Korea's plan to quit the U.N. nuclear watchdog group, the United States, Japan and South Korea pledged yesterday to push ahead with sanctions against the Communist state.
South Korean authorities, meanwhile, sought to calm the public, scaling back plans for the biggest civil defense drill in years and publicly playing down the possibility of war with North Korea. But jitters sent South Korean stock prices down sharply.
North Korea's withdrawal from the International Atomic Energy Agency would make it virtually impossible to check whether it is complying with provisions of the nuclear arms-control pact it signed in 1985.
Although the regime in Pyongyang says its nuclear research program is for peaceful purposes, the refusal to permit full U.N. inspections has fueled suspicions that the North Korea is trying to build atomic bombs.
Officials of the IAEA said they had not been notified by North Korea that it was withdrawing from the 120-nation U.N. organization. But North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, Pak Gil Ton, told reporters in New York on Tuesday that formal notice would be delivered later in the day.
The United States is leading a campaign to impose sanctions to pressure North Korea to allow U.N. inspections. The isolationist North Korean government has warned it would consider sanctions an act of war.
President Clinton and Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata of Japan spoke by telephone yesterday about North Korea's announcement late Monday that it
was leaving the IAEA. Japan's Foreign Ministry quoted Clinton as saying North Korea's withdrawal would make the nuclear dispute more serious.
In Seoul, South Korea's foreign minister, Han Sung-joo, said prospects for dialogue with North Korea had diminished. "We have now run into a critical juncture where decisive and firm measures are necessary," he said.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said North Korea's action "runs counter to the desires of international society" and urged it to reconsider. Japan renewed its promise to support any sanctions agreed to by the U.N. Security Council.
After an emergency meeting of South Korean security officials, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hongkoo said Pyongyang's move would strengthen international resolve to seek sanctions, a process he predicted would take two to three weeks.
In recent days, South Korea has taken steps to improve war readiness, including ordering a check of underground shelterers and emergency water supplies. Its military is on high alert and police are on special guard against saboteurs and infiltrators.
But on Tuesday, authorities moved to calm public unease. "There is no reason to talk or worry about a war," said Han, the foreign minister.
A statement issued by Prime Minister Lee Yungduk stressed that Wednesday's civil defense drill, billed earlier as the biggest such exercise in years, would be routine.
"These events were designed to remind the public that there is nothing to fear as long as we are fully prepared," Lee's statement said.
North Korea's announcement that it was leaving the IAEA sparked a selling wave on the Seoul stock exchange. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index
fell to 903.72 in a 2.1 percent drop that was its biggest one-day fall in four months.
Making an informal effort to mediate the dispute, former President Carter met with President Kim Young-sam and other South Korean officials yesterday. Carter plans to visit North Korea for four days, starting today as scheduled, despite the North Korean pullout from the IAEA, South Korean officials said.
South Korean newspapers, quoting unidentified government sources, said Carter would convey to North Korean officials U.S. conditions for high-level talks on improving ties. This is something Pyongyang has long sought.
Those conditions include North Korea allowing inspections of two facilities at its main nuclear complex at Yongbyon and disclosing records on extracting plutonium in the past, the Seoul newspaper Dong-Albo said.
An IEA demand for inspections of the two sites, which North Korea has denied are nuclear facilities, prompted the Pyongyang government to announce in March 1993 that it would quit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
North Korea suspended that decision a few months later, after a series of talks with the United States, but it still refused to permit full inspections.
In Monday's statement, North Korea said it still was considering whether to withdraw from the treaty.
The push for U.N. sanctions began after the IAEA reported June 2 that North Korea had refueled an experimental reactor in a way that made it impossible to determine whether plutonium fuel had been diverted, possibly for nuclear arms.
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