A fact-finding team from countries to the six-party talks on the
nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula arrived Tuesday on a mission
to follow up progress in the disablement of the nuclear facilities
in Yongbyon.
The team, composed of 10 officials and experts from China, South
Korea, Japan, the United States and Russia, will head for Yongbyon
on Wednesday, said the head of the team, Chen Naiqing, who is also
China's ambassador for Korean Peninsula issues.
"Until now the process of disablement in Yongbyon is going on
smoothly," Chen said.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) shut down the
Yongbyon nuclear reactor in July.
According to a six-party talks joint document released in
Beijing on Oct. 3, the DPRK agreed to disable all the existing
nuclear facilities and provide a complete and correct declaration
of all its nuclear programs by the end of this year.
The document said the disablement of the five-megawatt
Experimental Reactor, the Reprocessing Plant (Radiochemical
Laboratory) and the Nuclear Fuel Rod Fabrication Facility in
Yongbyon would be completed by Dec. 31.
(Xinhua News Agency November 27, 2007)
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