North Korea shuts down nuclear reactor

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!

Sunday, July 15, 2007

North Korea's nuclear program

Recent stories

• 23 June 2009: Tensions continue to rise between North Korea and United States
• 19 June 2009: Tensions rise between North Korea and United States
• 18 June 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama calls North Korea a "grave threat"
• 25 May 2009: North Korea conducts test of nuclear weapon
• 4 July 2008: Pakistani scientist says government knew about nuclear shipment to North Korea

External and Inter-wiki links

• Portal:North Korea nuclear proliferation
• Wikipedia article about North Korea and WMDs
• Wikipedia article about the 2006 nuclear test

Kim Myong Gil, the North Korean minister to the United Nations in New York City, New York, claims his government has shut down its infamous reactor located in Yongbyon and is ready to start dismantling its nuclear programmes as long as the United States keeps its promise to remove all sanctions and remove North Korea from the terrorism list.

The 10 members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection team will be going to North Korea to verify the shut down has taken place. The inspectors were forced to leave North Korea in late 2002 when this crisis began. The South Korean government has sent the North 50,000 tons of fuel oil as a reward for starting to dismantle its nuclear programmes and will send one million tons more.

The South Korea's nuclear envoy Chun Yung-woo called the shut down of the Yongbyon a milestone event but said the next phase will be more difficult than the reactor shut down.

Sources

• "N. Korea says its nuclear reactor is shut down". CNN, July 15, 2007
• "NK Shuts Down Nuclear Facilities". Korea Times, July 15, 2007
  

Share this:

This page is archived, and is no longer publicly editable. Got a correction? Add the template {{editprotected}} to the talk page along with your corrections, and it will be brought to the attention of the administrators. Please note that due to our archival policy, we will not alter or update the content of articles that are archived, but will only accept requests to make grammatical and formatting corrections. Note that some listed sources or external links may no longer be available online due to age.