The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) restored access for
international inspectors to its Yongbyon nuclear facilities for further
verification, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spokesperson Melissa
Fleming confirmed yesterday.
Fleming said in a statement released by IAEA yesterday that the DPRK granted
IAEA inspectors access to the 5 Megawatt Experimental Nuclear Power Plant, the
Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Plant and the reprocessing facility at Yongbyon for
verification and monitoring.
It was reported that the United States and DPRK reached a compromise for
their nuclear conflict last weekend. The US agreed to remove DPRK from a
sponsors-of-terrorism blacklist while DPRK promised to resume the disablement
work of its nuclear facilities.
Yongbyon's nuclear facilities were shut down in July last year under an
aid-for-disarmament deal agreed by the Six Parties -- DPRK, South Korea, China,
the US, Japan and Russia. However, DPRK recently vowed to restart the Yongbyon
nuclear reactors and denied IAEA inspectors' access to the nuclear facilities
because the US refused to remove it from the terrorism blacklist as promised.
