Inspectors Get OK to Visit N. Korea Nuclear Facilities
North Korea agreed Friday to allow U.N. inspectors to visit its nuclear facilities beginning Tuesday, U.S. and North Korean officials announced.
North Korea, which had been resisting international pressure to open sites suspected of building nuclear weapons, has been threatened with economic sanctions if it didn’t comply.
Thomas Hubbard, a U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said the agreement was reached during talks late Friday with Ho Jong, North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hans Blix, was to report Monday on whether North Korean leaders would admit agency inspectors.
Ho said that in the talks the United States agreed to call off joint military exercises this year with South Korea, resume high-level talks in Geneva on a permanent settlement to the nuclear issue and allow the resumption of North Korean-South Korean talks on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
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