IAEA Says North Korea Has Shut Reactor
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U.N. inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has shut down its sole functioning nuclear reactor, its first step toward halting production of nuclear weapons.
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The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has clarified how to monitor the shutdown of North Korea's nuclear facility and it is now up to Pyongyang and its five negotiating partners to decide on a date, an official said on Saturday.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said it had verified that North Korea had closed all five of its nuclear facilities, marking a key step in the effort to get the country to give up its nuclear programs.
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The US says it has been told by North Korea that it has closed its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
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North Korea agrees to shut its Yongbyon nuclear reactor within three weeks, US envoy Christopher Hill says.
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North Korea has invited inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog back into the country to monitor the shut down of its main nuclear reactor, state media reports.
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North Korea moved a step closer to fulfilling a promise to shutter its main nuclear reactor after agreeing with international monitors Friday on how to verify a shutdown.
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North Korea confirmed it has shut its nuclear reactor that provides the secretive state with material to make weapons-grade plutonium, a North Korean official said, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
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BEIJING, March 14 -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that North Korean officials told him they will begin shutting down their main nuclear reactor only after the United States lifts financial restrictions against North Korea.
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U.N. inspectors headed to North Korea's key nuclear reactor Thursday to discuss a long-delayed shutdown of the facility
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North Korea has agreed to wide-ranging U.N. measures to verify a shutdown of its atom bomb program, nuclear inspectors said on Tuesday, but doubts arose about when disarmament would begin.
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KARIWA, Japan  - A Japanese city ordered the world's biggest nuclear power plant to stay closed until safety was assured after an earthquake caused radiation leaks, as the U.N. nuclear watchdog said the utility had misjudged seismic risks.
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North Korea said Sunday it is ready to permanently disable the nuclear reactor it just turned off if the United States lifts economic sanctions on the impoverished nation and strikes it from a list of terrorism sponsors.
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Members of the U.N.'s nuclear agency on Monday approved sending experts to North Korea to supervise the shutdown of the North's plutonium-producing reactor, a diplomat said.
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U.N. inspectors were working to verify North Koreaâs announcement that it had shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.
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North Korea will allow a team of U.N. nuclear watchdog officials to visit the Yongbyon reactor it agreed to shut down under a disarmament-for-aid deal, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Wednesday.
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North Korea has told the United States it has shut down a nuclear reactor as part of a disarmament deal, the State Department said on Saturday after a team of U.N. nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang.