Korea Cooperating
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BEIJING (AP) – North Korea has cooperated fully with a team U.N. nuclear experts who were monitoring the shutdown and sealing of the country’s sole plutonium-producing reactor, the leader of the team said Tuesday.
The 10-member International Atomic Energy Agency team went to North Korea on July 12 to supervise the closing of the Yongbyon reactor, the key component of the North’s nuclear program.
“I should say that in doing our activities, we had complete cooperation from the DPRK authorities and because of that, we think that what we needed to perform was performed,” Adel Tolba told reporters on arrival at Beijing’s airport. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the formal name of North Korea.
“The evaluation and assessment of our mission will be performed in headquarters in Vienna,” Mr. Tolba said.
Tolba’s team has been replaced by a second six-member IAEA team that arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday.
He said his team saw all five facilities it was supposed to visit.
