posted on July 14, 2007 07:31:52 PM new
Amazing what "talking" can accomplish .
N. Korea Confirms Reactor Is Shut Down
Updated 9:41 PM ET July 14, 2007
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean diplomat confirmed the country had shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor after receiving an initial shipment of oil aid, and said U.N. nuclear inspectors would start work on Sunday to verify it.
"Immediately after the arrival of the first heavy fuel oil, the facilities were shut down and the (International Atomic Energy Agency) personnel will verify that maybe by now, or from today in Korea," Kim Myong Gil, minister at the North's mission to the United Nations in New York, told The Associated Press by telephone.
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