IAEA team heads to N Korea reactor
UN agency team to monitor the shutdown of the Yongbyon nuclear facility.
“We will resume our work when we arrive.”
North Korea has not said when the shutdown, which is part of disarmament agreement reached in February, will be completed..
But Christopher Hill, US nuclear envoy, said it would happen in days.
“I think it’s a matter of today, tomorrow, maybe Monday,” he said during a visit to Japan.”
Fuel oil shipment
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Pyongyang will receive 50,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil for closing the facility and that will rise to one million tonnes once the whole nuclear programme is dismantled.
Tolba said that his team would stay in North Korea as long as was needed to complete the work.
The two Koreas, the US, China, Russia and Japan will resume talks on Wednesday next week to discuss how Pyongyang proceeds towards full denuclearisation.
Hill also said he expected the North to submit a list of its nuclear facilities within months, as was agreed upon in February’s round of talks.
“We expect the comprehensive list in a matter of several weeks, possibly several months,” he said.
Hill also stressed that the shutdown of Yongbyon was only the first step.
“I also don’t want people to think this shutdown is the biggest and only event.”