The planned demolition of the nuclear cooling tower by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a first step towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's presidential office said on Friday.
But the office, Cheong Wa Dae, also said the DPRK still has a long way to go to completely denuclearize.
"North Korea's (planned) destruction of its nuclear reactor cooling tower is a politically symbolic event indicative of its determination to disable its nuclear weapons program," South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said.
"The cooling tower blast also marks the first step towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, North Korea has many additional steps to carry out before its complete denuclearization," said the spokesman.
The South Korean government will closely cooperate with the international community to force DPRK to implement the remaining procedures for its denuclearization, Lee added.
DPRK was to destroy the cooling tower at its main nuclear center in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, Friday afternoon in front of officials and television crews from five countries -- South Korea, China, the U.S., Japan and Russia -- following the delivery of its nuclear declaration to China on Thursday.
Spokesman Lee also evaluated DPRK's presentation Thursday of the list of its nuclear weapons programs to China as "desirable progress" that will lead to the denuclearization of the peninsula.
Source:Xinhua
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