UN nuclear officials arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to negotiate terms for inspectors to monitor the shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear reactor, its source of bomb-grade plutonium. Pyongyang has agreed to implement a nuclear disarmament deal struck in February, reviving a long-stalled plan to provide North Korea with fuel in exchange for closing the Yongbyon reactor.
"We are always needing to be optimistic. I think the DPRK will now do what they have (been) asked to do," Olli Heinonen, chief nuclear inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters in Beijing.
His team will be in North Korea for three days, negotiating arrangements for IAEA verification for the shutdown and sealing of the nuclear facilities and the reprocessing plant.
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