A US diplomat has left Pyongyang carrying documents detailing North Korea's nuclear activities.
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N Korea talks 'not at stalemate' ... specialist, returned to South Korea after collecting about 18,000 secret papers during a three-day visit to Pyongyang. The US plans to scrutinize the technical logs from the Yongbyon reactor to see if the North is telling the truth about a bomb programme that it has agreed to trade away for economic and political rewards. Pyongyang says it is disabling the plutonium-producing reactor and other plants under a deal reached last year with the US, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
(Deutsche Welle)
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