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North Korea delivers nuclear papers

SINGAPORE: North Korea has delivered 18,000 pages of data on its nuclear weapons programme; and a delegation of five U.S. officials, carrying these documents in sealed boxes, crossed over to South Korea across the de-militarised zone on Saturday. The team was led by Sung Kim, director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Korean Affairs; and he made no substantive comment, at the Panmunjom Crossing, pending an evaluation of the papers by Washington.

After the team crossed into South Korea, the U.S. State Department said the hand-over of the nuclear papers marked “an important first step” towards the verification of the completeness and correctness of the promised declaration by North Korea about the totality of its atomic arms-related activities.

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