IAEA says new system needed to prevent new nuclear weapons states.

(From AFX Europe (Focus))

VIENNA (AFX) - The International Atomic Energy Agency said it needed a new system to ensure that 20 to 30 new countries do not develop a nuclear weapon, on top of the nine current nuclear powers, including North Korea.

"We need to develop a new system of international approach (or we will not) end up with nine (nuclear-)weapon states only, but with another 20 or 30 states which have the capacity to develop nuclear weapons in a short time," IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said in Vienna.

He was speaking at the opening of a symposium bringing together some 500 experts to discuss how to improve safeguards to ensure …