A team of UN nuclear inspectors has arrived in Beijing after North Korean officials ordered them out earlier this week.

The team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) pulled out of the Yongbyon Nuclear Plant on Wednesday after the North asked them to leave. Pyongyang's move follows the UN Security Council's presidential statement which denounced the communist state's April 5th rocket launch.

The North announced Tuesday that it was expelling UN and U.S. nuclear inspectors from the Yongbyon facility, adding that it would to restart production of weapons-grade plutonium.