The United States' chief nuclear negotiator, Christopher Hill, has wrapped up his three-day trip to North Korea aimed at convincing Pyongyang to resume dismantling its nuclear programme.
Officials said Hill had extended his stay in the North for a day, indicating that a deal might be in the offing. A US State Department spokesman said on Thursday that Hill was discussing a nuclear verification system in North Korea. Pyongyang last month said it would start rebuilding its Yongbyon nuclear plant in anger at not being removed from a US terrorism Size matters for hill reclassified as mountain ...
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Six-party talks on North Korean denuclearisation end ... blacklist. North Korea began disabling the plant in November under a disarmament deal struck at six-party talks.
(Deutsche Welle)
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