North Korea Dismantling Nuclear Facilities, U.S. Confirms

by Rob Walker | November 6, 2007 at 08:58 am

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Well if this is true it's better than nothing. I still don't trust that everything is on the up and up.

The disablement of North Korea's nuclear weapons-making facilities has started smoothly and the communist nation should be able to complete the process by the end of the year, a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday.

"I think we are off to a good start and will look forward to completing the task by the end of the year as planned," Sung Kim, the U.S. State Department's top expert on Korea, said after arriving in Seoul following a visit to North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear site.

Kim said North Korean officials were "very co-operative" and that disablement work had begun at three major facilities at the main Yongbyon nuclear complex, located about 100 kilometres north of Pyongyang.