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N Korea 'set to implement deal'
15/02/2007 17:24 - (SA)
Tokyo - North Korea is ready to implement this week's deal, under which it would shut key nuclear facilities within 60 days, Pyongyang's top negotiator was quoted as saying on Thursday.
"The talks went well," North Korean envoy Kim Kye-Gwan said on returning to Pyongyang, according to Japan's Kyodo News agency.
"We are ready to implement the results of the meeting," Kim was quoted as telling the Russian ambassador and a senior Chinese envoy at the airport.
China and Russia are two participants in the talks that reached the breakthrough agreement, along with Japan, South Korea and the United States. Fuel oil
Under the deal, North Korea would have 60 days to shut down its main Yongbyon nuclear reactor and allow United Nations nuclear inspectors back into the country.
The energy-starved regime would in turn receive a first tranche of 50 000 tons of fuel oil - part of an eventual one million tons if it permanently disables its key nuclear facilities.
Just hours after the deal was announced in Beijing on Tuesday, North Korean official media raised questions about its commitment by saying the deal required only the "temporary suspension" of its nuclear sites.
China, North Korea's main ally and host of the six-way talks, called Thursday for all sides to begin work immediately on implementing the deal.
- AFP
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