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Director of DPRK GDAE Sends Message to Director-General of IAEA

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Ri Je Son, director of the General Department of Atomic Energy of the DPRK, on April 20 sent a message to Mohamed el-Baradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in connection with the fact that on April 17 the IAEA made a request for the DPRK visit of its working delegation.
    Noting that when the director-general of the IAEA visited Pyongyang in March there was a preliminary understanding that the DPRK would invite the working delegation of the IAEA at an appropriate time, the message said:
    The DPRK decided to suspend the operation of the nuclear facility in Nyongbyon within 60 days after the publication of the Feb. 13 agreement on the premise that the U.S. side should defreeze the DPRK's fund in Banco Delta Asia in Macao within 30 days after its publication.
    The DPRK still remains unchanged in its will to implement the Feb. 13 agreement, but what matters is that it cannot move as the issue of frozen fund has not yet been completely settled.
    Working negotiations are now brisk between a DPRK bank and the above-said bank to settle the issue.
    The DPRK is ready to invite the above-said delegation of the IAEA the moment the actual defreezing of the frozen fund in the bank has been confirmed and discuss the issues of suspending the operation of the nuclear facility in Nyongbyon and verifying and monitoring procedures of it according to the Feb. 13 agreement.