U.S. Experts Begin To Disable North Korean Nuclear Program

November 5, 2007 · Filed Under World News, nuclear weapons

U.S. experts on Monday launched an unprecedented process to disable North Korea’s nuclear arsenal at the key Yongbyon atomic complex under a multilateral agreement.

A State Department spokesman acknowledged that the process has in fact started, but did not give details on what had been undertaken so far in the disablement of the plutonium-producing reactor at Yongbyon.

Disablement aims to make the reactor and other plants unusable for at least a year while talks on total denuclearization continue.

North Korea agreed to end its nuclear weapons drive in return for aid, security and diplomatic guarantees under the agreement among the United States, the two Koreas, China, Russia amd Japan.