North Korea raps IAEA for assuring safety of Fukushima water release

North Korea criticized Sunday the International Atomic Energy Agency for assuring the safety of Japan's release of treated radioactive water from the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, reiterating its opposition to the discharge plan, according to state-run media.The envisioned water release will have a "fatal adverse impact on the human lives and security and ecological environment," a senior official of the country's Land and Environment Protection Ministry was quoted as saying in a statement by the official Korean Central News Agency.Last Tuesday, the IAEA submitted to Ja…READ FULL ARTICLE