The United States said Monday its envoy has returned to Washington with thousands of nuclear documents of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and U.S. experts will start to analyze the documents.
"They're going to get started working on these documents, seeing what they have, and leafing through and analyzing 18,000 pages worth of documents, which include records," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
"These documents will be examined thoroughly by a team of U.S. verification and other experts," McCormack said.
The DPRK handed over the nuclear documents to U.S. envoy Sung Kim in Pyongyang on Thursday. The documents are believed to be detailed technical logs from the DPRK's shuttered plutonium reactor.
"They are an important element in the verification of a declaration which will include figures for the amount of plutonium they have produced," a U.S. official said.
Prior to his latest visit to the DPRK, Sung Kim, director of the Korea Office at the State Department, had talks with DPRK officials in Pyongyang on April 22 on how to verify any declaration the DPRK may make about its nuclear programs.
Under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in Beijing in February last year, the DPRK agreed to abandon all nuclear weapons and programs and declare all its nuclear programs and facilities by the end of 2007, in exchange for diplomatic and economic incentives.
However, the DPRK missed the deadline despite reported progress in its nuclear disablement and declaration.
The United States has urged the DPRK to fully declare its nuclear programs and activities.
Source:Xinhua
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