The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) publicized on Wednesday the main points of the verification deal reached with the United States in early October, refusing requests for sampling in its nuclear facilities, the official KCNA news agency said.
According to the statement, the deal includes confined verification in the Yongbyon nuclear facilities, the methods of verification include field visits, confirmation of documents, and interviews with technicians. The verification process would only be initiated after the economic compensation -- one million tons of fuel oil or equivalent -- had been delivered, the statement said.
Any attempt to adopt additional verification measures such as collecting samples not listed in the DPRK-U.S. written agreement was "an infringement upon the DPRK sovereignty" and would "inevitably lead to a war," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
He also said the delay of economic compensation would decrease the "tempo of the disablement", "making it hard to predict the prospect of the six-party talks".
The DPRK agreed in 2007 in talks with the United States, Japan, China, Russia and South Korea to disable its Yongbyon facilities in exchange for economic aid and political concessions, including its removal from the U.S. terrorism list.
After U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill paid a three-day visit to Pyongyang in early October and struck a verification deal with the DPRK to save the stalled six-party talks, the Bush administration dropped the country from the terrorism blacklist onOct. 11.
Source: Xinhua
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