North Korea has given thousands of pages of nuclear weapon documents to the US, another step toward full declaration, a US official says. "The North Koreans have handed them over as part of the verification effort with respect to their eventual declaration of their plutonium holdings," said the senior US official, who asked not to be identified.
The documents were handed over by the North Koreans to the State Department's Korea expert, Sung Kim, who is visiting Pyongyang. They provide detailed logs of how much plutonium was produced.
He said the US would carefully go through the documents after Kim and his team left Pyongyang later this week and traveled to South Korea.
The accord under which North Korea agreed to abandon all its nuclear programs in exchange for economic and diplomatic benefits has been bogged down by Pyongyang's failure to produce a declaration of those programs by the end of last year. |