DPRK set to resume nuclear disablement

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said yesterday it would resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed it from a list of states that Washington says sponsor terrorism.

The DPRK's Foreign Ministry said it would again allow inspections by the US and the International Atomic Energy Agency at its Yongbyon nuclear complex to verify the disablement process, pledged under a 2007 disarmament-for-aid deal reached at the Six-Party Talks.

"We welcome the US which has honored its commitment to delist (the DPRK) as 'a state sponsor of terrorism'," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.