US Receives 18,000 Nuclear Documents From North Korea
By VOA News
10 May 2008
U.S. officials say they plan to thoroughly examine 18,000 documents detailing North Korea's nuclear program, which Pyongyang has turned over to an American envoy.
The U.S. State Department's director of Korean affairs, Sung Kim, crossed the inter-Korean border into South Korea Saturday with boxes of documents he received detailing two decades of the North Koreans' work on plutonium enrichment.
Kim is scheduled to return to Washington Monday with the information.
The U.S. official led a five-member negotiating team that arrived in Pyongyang Thursday for talks aimed at convincing North Korea to fully declare its nuclear activities. In exchange, the United States pledged food and other aid to the impoverished north.
While visiting North Korea for the second time in as many weeks, Kim said his aim was to resolve the dispute that grew out of Pyongyang's failure to meet a December 31 deadline for disclosure of all of its nuclear activities.
Under procedures set by the six nations that have met on the North Korean nuclear issue, Pyongyang's official declaration of its activities is to be reviewed by China, which chairs the talks.
The two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia are members of the six-party nuclear talks.
Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.
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