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Chief delegates to the six-way nuclear talks have reached agreement during the fifth round of negotiations in Beijing.
China announced an implementation agreement Tuesday after all parties to the multilateral disarmament talks gave their approval in a plenary session.
Under the agreement, North Korea pledged to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon within sixty days as an initial step to realize a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.
The agreement provides that, in return for shutting down the Yongbyon facilities and allowing International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, North Korea will receive energy aid equivalent to 50-thousand tons of heavy fuel oil. Moreover, if it takes further steps to report and disable all nuclear facilities, the North will receive an additional 950-thousand tons of energy aid.
The deal will allow some countries, which are reluctant to give heavy fuel oil, to provide other energy sources and humanitarian aid to Pyongyang. Russia, for example, prefers to offer electricity.
Japan is also unwilling to provide energy aid unless the issue of North Korean abductions of Japanese nationals dating back to the 1960s is resolved. The other four countries will bear energy aid costs pending a resolution of the issue.
The agreement, which was announced in the name of the six-party chief negotiators, is subject to approval at the capital-level and calls for an additional meeting of foreign ministers from the six countries. Five working groups proposed by China will hammer out implementation details.
One working group assigned to tackle normalization of relations between North Korea and the U.S. will discuss removing Pyongyang from Washington's list of state sponsors of terrorism. It will also work toward the lifting of a U.S. ban on trading with the North under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. Reported by KBS WORLD Radio
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