Oil for nuclear deal headed north
South Korea sent a shipload of oil to North Korea, a move aimed at triggering the shutdown of the communist nation’s only working nuclear reactor in a first step toward dismantling its atomic bomb program.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said he expected the agency to begin monitoring the shutdown of the North’s Yongbyon reactor “early next week.”
A South Korean ship left for North Korea carrying an initial delivery of 6,200 tons of heavy fuel oil being given to the North for its agreement to shut down Yongbyon.
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