"They were only able to partially fulfil their mission," a source at the U.N. nuclear safeguards agency said Tuesday.
Japan and South Korea said earlier that North Korea had hampered efforts by the team to determine whether the Stalinist state was secretly diverting plutonium for a weapons program.
The West has long suspected that Pyongyang is developing a nuclear arms program, but the secretive Communist state strenuously denies the charge.
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