DPRK won't bow to IAEA demand: A North Korean official said Tuesday that his government will never allow the special inspection demanded by the International Atomic Energy Agency, AP reports from Beijing.

North Korea's ambassador to China, Chu Chang Jun. told a news conference that the agency's demand was based on fabricated Information supplied by the United States.

"It is a gangstcr-like act which cannot be tolerated In any case.” he said. "We cannot but take counter-measures to defend our country's sovereignty."

Asked what measures were being considered, he said. "Walt and see."

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN-watchdqg agency, says that analysis of material from six inspections of North Korean nuclear facilities revealed "major inconsistencies" In the Communist government's claims regarding the quantity and quality of nuclear material it has. Woman dies in Cairo mishap: a paralyzed woman was cut In two tn an elevator shaft in Cairo Monday, press reports said Tuesday, AFP reports from Cairo.

The incident occurred when the lift activated after nurses had pushed the woman's gurney only halfway tn. Her husband and 12-ycar-old daughter witnessed the accident.

The woman. 35, had been admitted to the Kasr El Alni I losptlal in Cairo for examination.

Myanmar frees 5 Thai loggers: Myanmar soldiers released five Thal-loggers from an army camp In Myanmar jungle yesterday a day after the That military handed over two Myanmar soldiers held in Thailand, a Thal officer said, Reuter reports from Mac Sot

The loggers had had to pay ■ small fine for Illegal entry into Myanmar the officer said

The Myanmar army arrested nine That workers last month after the two Myanmar soldiers were seized carrying anna on the Thai side of the border.

Four of the loggers were later released after their relatives paid ransoms to the Myanmar soldiers.

Kohl meets Yeltsin today: German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will meet President Boris Ycllain In Moscow today for talks on the war In ex-Yugoslavtu and Russia's domestic situation, official sources said. AFP reports from Moscow

The Foreign Ministry said Monday that the two leader* would meet in a presidential residence during Kohl's brief stopover in Moscow on his way home from South Korea, ac cording lo the Interfax News Agency

Ilie talks would cover world affairs, particularly the war In Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia, and the coming Tokyo summit of the Group of Seven most-Industrialised nations, re ported Interfax.

A German embassy spokesman said Kohl would like- Yeltsin to give him a detailed account of Russian internal affairs Sihanouk off to Beijing: ’’rince Norodom Sihanouk left Cambodia for Belting yesterday to attend the funeral of his aunt who died there this week. AFP reports from Phnom Penh.

Dk- aunt Norodom Ket Kanha, lived tn exile In Beijing and died Monday at her age of 91, royal palate officials said

Prince Sihanouk boarded a special Kampuchea Airways plane and was seen off by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Cambodian People's Party President Chea Sim, as well as members of the diplomatic corps and representatives of the opposition factions

Th<\ prince was due to have a medical checkup In the Chinese capital and return to Cambodia at lh< end .if the month, the palace officials said

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