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Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2007 A US team of experts studying the disabling of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme has returned to Pyongyang after two days at the Yongbyon nuclear site, Chinese state press reported Thursday. The experts, from the United States, Russia and China, were expected to meet North Korean officials Friday to discuss the measures required to shut down the complex, the Xinhua news agency said in a report from Pyongyang. Their main task is to decide the most effective way of permanently shutting down the plants at the Yongbyon complex, which Pyongyang closed in July as part of a February multilateral agreement. The experts refused to comment on their trip, Xinhua said, but the US said Wednesday that North Korea had given them full access. After over four years of stalemate, the North agreed on February 13 under the six-party framework to declare and disable its nuclear program in return for aid, security guarantees and major diplomatic benefits. In July it shut down its only operating reactor at Yongbyon in return for 50,000 tonnes of fuel oil. The International Atomic Energy Agency in August confirmed the shutdown, along with the closure of a nuclear fuel fabrication plant, a reprocessing plant and a separate 50-megawatt reactor, only partly built, at Yongbyon. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Learn about nuclear weapons doctrine and defense at SpaceWar.com Learn about missile defense at SpaceWar.com All about missiles at SpaceWar.com Learn about the Superpowers of the 21st Century at SpaceWar.com
SKorea, US start consulting on NKorea peace pact
Seoul (AFP) Sept 13, 2007South Korea and the United States have already begun talks about a possible agreement with North Korea formally ending the 1950-53 war on the peninsula, the US ambassador to Seoul said Thursday. |
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