SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded its fourth inspection over the South Korean two past nuclear-related experiments on Wednesday, South Korean Yonhap News Agency quoted sources at the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) as reporting on Thursday.

    The four-member IAEA inspection team left South Korea on Wednesday after conducting inspections on the (South) Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute in Daejoen, some 160 kilometers south to Seoul, during their ten-day stay in the Asian country.

    Representing the UN nuclear watchdog, the four inspectors also attended an annual IAEA-South Korea seminar aimed to review Seoul's compliance of the Safeguard Agreement.

    In the IAEA-South Korea seminar, the inspectors said the IAEA will conclude special investigation of the South Korean nuclear material experiments, and resume rutine inspections of South Korean nuclear facilities, said Yonhap.

    During the workshop, the IAEA team also agreed on South Korean government's demand to provide International SSAC Advisory Service(ISSAS) to Seoul.

    The ISSAS is a new initiative designed by the IAEA to provide recommendations for strengthening the SSAC (State Systems for Accounting and Control). ISSAS missions compare the procedures andpractices in member states with the obligations specified under safeguards agreements, with international consensus guidelines andagainst equivalent practices in other countries.

    South Korean official estimated the IAEA will organize a five-member nuclear expert group to arrive in the Asian country in the first half of 2005, said Yonhap.

    South Korea admitted in early September that its scientists extracted or enriched small amounts of plutonium and uranium, two key ingredients of nuclear weapons, in 1982 and 2000 without reporting to the government.

    Seoul officials have repeatedly stressed that the experiments were isolated, one-off incidents and not part of any weapons program.

    In late November, the IAEA's governing board cleared Seoul of nuclear ambitions suspicions with a decision not to refer the country to the UN Security Council for punishment. But IAEA urged South Korea to continue receiving monitoring from the UN nuclear watch body. Enditem