"The situation in North Korea is a very worrying situation. Here is a country who has the capaibility, who probably has the nuclear material to make a weapon, and we need to make sure that that situation comes under control as soon as we can," he told CNN.
"If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent mesage that there is zero-tolerance to any country that is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included," he said.
ElBaradei said he could not guess how many nuclear weapons North Korea might have, but that intelligence report indicated the reclusive state had one or two bombs.
"What we know for sure is that they have produced plutonium that they have not declared to us," he said.
"We know they have material that they have not declared, how much that we do not know and that's why we need to go back and do intrusive inspections." Pressure from the United States and its allies has intensified for North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions after the Stalinist country's reported admission that it has nuclear weapons.
The admission, allegedly made at talks with the United States and China last week, sparked alarm, with Washington weighing its next move against Pyongyang - Sapa-AFP
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