North Korea Agrees to End Nuclear Programme

World | September 2, 2007, Sunday // 00:00

North Korea has agreed to shut down and dismantle all of its nuclear facilities by the end of the year, the top US negotiator in the talks with Pyongyang said on Sunday.

The details of the agreement will be hammered out later this month at a summit in China, Christopher Hill said.

Although North Korea tested a nuclear warhead last year, it agreed to dismantle its programme in exchange for humanitarian aid and after Washington threatened to bomb its nuclear research centre at Yongbyon.

Under the terms of that agreement, experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will decommission the reactor and the plutonium reprocessing plant, and then seal the equipment.

The US has long viewed North Korea's nuclear programme as an attempt to develop nuclear weapons, despite Pyongyang's protestations it was only interested in nuclear energy.

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