NKorea takes 'important first step' to nuclear disclosure: US
AFP, May, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — North Korea has taken an "important first step" toward disclosing its weapons-grade plutonium programs even while slowing down some disablement of its nuclear plants, a US envoy said Tuesday.
Sung Kim, head of the State Department's North Korea office, said the 18,822 pages of documents in 314 volumes he brought back from Pyongyang should help verify a long-delayed declaration from North Korea on its nuclear activities.
"These are operating and production records for the five-megawatt reactor and the reprocessing plant in Yongbyon," Kim told a press conference in Washington, standing next to stacks of some of the documents.
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"I do think these documents are an important first step in terms of verifying North Korea's declaration," which has yet to be submitted, Kim said.
A team of experts will review the Korean-language documents which still have to be translated, he said. ...
