"Compliance teams are working hard to complete this year's inspection programme by April 2013, " it said.

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The figures were released as part of a report by the National Dental Inspection Programme.

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Figures from the national dental inspection programme, for 2011-12, showed 67% of P1 pupils had no obvious decay, compared to 54% in 2005-06.

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On the day of the inspection, the activities programme was listed as breakfast and board games in the morning and relaxation in the afternoon.

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On August 13th, for example, a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman threatened a pull-out from the 1994 agreement under which North Korea agreed to suspend its nuclear-weapons programme and submit to international inspection of its nuclear facilities.

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Some have speculated that the programme may have been dispersed to hide it from the inspectors (though this suggests that inspection was containing the threat).

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