[NYTr] DPRK Confirms Schedule for Dismantling Nuclear Facilities

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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N.Korea to Dismantle N-Facilities

Seoul, Oct 29 (Prensa Latina) The People's Democratic Republic of Korea
confirmed it will start dismantling its nuclear installations by
November, expressed a South Korean official in this capital.

Lim Sung-nam, South Korean chief of talks on power assistance, said
that PDRK is working to begin closure its atomic centers by November
1st.

In that way Pyongyang will faithfully implement the denuclearization
measure's second step, under February 13 agreements in Beijing during
the six-country talks between China, PDRK, United States, Russia, Japan
and South Korea.

The work team is one of the five created under February's Treaty along
with other working groups on denuclearization of the PDRK in exchange
for economic and energy assistance.

Lim's declarations were spread in Seoul at the end of the First Plenary
Session the six-country delegates held in the small village of
Panmunjon, on the military demarcation between North and South of the
peninsula.

The South Korean representative said that Pyongyang expects the other
five nations will punctually supply economic and energy assistance,
which they promised last February.

Fulfilling the agreement, Pyongyang has already closed its five
installations including an five megawatt experimental reactor, a nuclear
fuel-producing plant and a fuel-recycling plant.

It should dismantle now its nuclear program and announce the atomic
plan's total removal before December 31.

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