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U.S., Chinese, Russian nuke experts visit 3 N. Korea facilities

PYONGYANG, North Korea - U.S., Chinese and Russian nuclear experts return to their hotel in Pyongyang on Sept. 13 after inspecting three facilities in Yongbyon nuclear complex during a two-day visit there. Sung Kim, director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Korea Affairs, said he found the trip ''useful.''

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U.S., Chinese, Russian nuke experts visit 3 N. Korea facilities

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sung Kim, director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Korea Affairs, returns to his hotel in Pyongyang on Sept. 13 after he and a team of U.S., Chinese and Russian nuclear experts inspected three facilities in Yongbyon nuclear complex during a two-day visit there. Kim said he found the trip ''useful.''

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U.S., Chinese, Russian nuke experts leave for Yongbyon

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sung Kim, deputy chief of the U.S. delegation to the six-party nuclear talks, leaves a hotel in Pyongyang on Sept. 12 for North Korea's nuclear complex in Yongbyon. Kim heads a team of nuclear experts from the United States, China and Russia to examine ways to disable nuclear facilities under the February six-party deal.

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Yongbyon reactor included in disablement plan: N. Korea envoy

SHENYANG, China - Ri Gun, North Korea's representative at talks on its nuclear abandonment, speaks to reporters at a hotel in the northeastern Chinese city Shenyang on Saturday, a day after attending a two-day meeting of a working group under the six-party process on North Korea's denuclearization. He says a key nuclear reactor in Yongbyon will be one of the facilities that will be disabled as part of the second stage of the country's denuclearization.

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IAEA monitors return to Beijing from N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency involved in the monitoring of the shutdown of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex arrive at Beijing airport from Pyongyang on Aug. 11.

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U.S. experts return from N. Korea after visiting Yongbyon

BEIJING, China - John Lewis (L), professor emeritus at Stanford University who led U.S. nuclear experts, arrives at Beijing airport on Aug. 11 after a trip to North Korea which included a visit to the country's key nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.

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Yongbyon nuclear complex

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows North Korea's key Yongbyon nuclear complex before its cooling tower (R) was demolished on June 27, 2008. North Korea said April 2, 2013, that it will restart all nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex that were shut down under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in 2007.

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Yongbyon nuclear complex

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the demolition of the 30-meter cooling tower attached to North Korea's key Yongbyon nuclear complex on June 27, 2008. North Korea said April 2, 2013, that it will restart all nuclear facilities at the Yongbyon complex that were shut down under an agreement reached at the six-party talks in 2007.

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Senior North Korean economist

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Gi Song, a professor at the Economic Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at a hotel in Pyongyang, on March 26, 2012. Ri said North Korea plans to complete construction of a light-water nuclear reactor at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon by the end of the year with immediate operation in sight.

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Senior North Korean economist

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ri Gi Song, a professor at the Economic Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, is interviewed by Kyodo News at a hotel in Pyongyang, on March 26, 2012. Ri said North Korea plans to complete construction of a light-water nuclear reactor at its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon by the end of the year with immediate operation in sight.

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U.S. experts return from N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Charles Ferguson, president of the Federation of American Scientists, is surrounded by members of the media upon arrival from Pyongyang at Beijing international airport in China on Dec. 3, 2011. Ferguson said a group of U.S. nuclear and Korean affairs experts did not visit the North's main nuclear complex in Yongbyon during its five-day trip.

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Satellite image of N. Korea's nuke complex

WASHINGTON, United States - Satellite photo released on June 10, 2011, by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based think tank, shows additional construction activities at the Yongbyon nuclear site in North Korea. The ISIS said the findings show that more is going on at Yongbyon than commonly believed and Pyongyang should provide information about these new buildings.

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S. Korea, U.S. suspect more N. Korean enrichment sites

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's foreign minister Kim Sung Hwan speaks at a press conference in Seoul on Dec. 14, 2010, commenting on a newspaper report that South Korea and the United States are trying to find out if North Korea is clandestinely operating more undisclosed uranium enrichment facilities, in addition to a plant at Yongbyon that the North recently showed to a visiting U.S. expert. Kim said the report is unconfirmed.

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Ex-U.S. envoy sees no signs of N. Korea resuming nuclear plant

BEIJING, China - Charles Pritchard, a former U.S. special envoy for Korean peace talks, is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at Beijing airport from Pyongyang on Nov. 6, 2010. He said there are no signs of North Korea having resumed nuclear activity at its Yongbyon nuclear complex.

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U.S. nuclear experts leave N. Korea nuclear site

PYONGYANG, North Korea - U.S. nuclear experts arrive at a hotel in Pyongyang on April 16 from the nuclear complex in Yongbyon in line with North Korea's order to leave the country. The four experts involved in disablement work at North Korea's main nuclear complex are expected to depart from North Korea as early as April 17.

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U.S. nuclear experts leave N. Korea nuclear site

PYONGYANG, North Korea - U.S. nuclear experts arrive at a hotel in Pyongyang on April 16 from the nuclear complex in Yongbyon in line with North Korea's order to leave the country. The four experts involved in disablement work at North Korea's main nuclear complex are expected to depart from North Korea as early as April 17.

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U.S. nuclear experts leave N. Korea nuclear site

PYONGYANG, North Korea - U.S. nuclear experts arrive at a hotel in Pyongyang on April 16 from the nuclear complex in Yongbyon in line with North Korea's order to leave the country. The four experts involved in disablement work at North Korea's main nuclear complex are expected to depart from North Korea as early as April 17.

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N. Korea asks IAEA to remove seals at Yongbyon nuclear facility

VIENNA, Austria - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohammed ElBaradei attends an IAEA board meeting in Vienna on Sept. 22. ElBaradei said North Korea has asked the U.N. nuclear watchdog to remove seals and surveillance equipment at a nuclear reprocessing facility in Yongbyon.

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Work to disable N. Korea nuke facilities to start Nov. 5: Hill

TOKYO, Japan - Top U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill speaks during a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Nov. 3. He said a team of U.S. experts will start work to disable key North Korean nuclear facilities at Yongbyon on Nov. 5 under a six-way denuclearization deal and so far Pyongyang has been cooperative.

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U.S. official leaves Pyongyang after visit to Yongbyon

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sung Kim (L), director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Korea Affairs, leaves his hotel in Pyongyang en route to South Korea on Sept. 15 , after a team of U.S., Chinese and Russian nuclear experts concluded a visit to North Korea to inspect the North Korean nuclear complex in Yongbyon.

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2nd team of IAEA inspectors leaves Beijing for N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Ryszard Zarucki, leader of a second team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks with reporters at Beijing airport on July 28 prior to departure for Pyongyang, where they will continue with the monitoring of the shutdown and sealing of Pyongyang's key nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.

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IAEA team arrives in N. Korea to verify nuke reactor shutdown

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Adel Tolba, head of a 10-member inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency sent to verify the shutting down and sealing of North Korea's key nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, speaks to reporters after arriving at Pyongyang's airport on July 14.

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IAEA team arrives in N. Korea to verify nuke reactor shutdown

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Adel Tolba, head of a 10-member inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency sent to verify the shutting down and sealing of North Korea's key nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, arrives at Pyongyang's airport on July 14.

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IAEA official says 'mutual understanding' reached with N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, concludes talks with North Korean officials at a hotel in Pyongyang on June 29 after an inspection of the Yongbyon nuclear complex.

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IAEA official says reached 'mutual understanding' with N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen, deputy general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to reporters in Pyongyang on June 29 after an inspection of the Yongbyon nuclear complex.

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IAEA official says reached 'mutual understanding' with N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen (L), deputy general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, return to a Pyongyang hotel on June 29 after an inspection of the Yongbyon nuclear complex.

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IAEA team satisfied with Yongbyon inspection tour

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, returns his hotel in Pyongyang on June 29 after returning from a visit to North Korea's nuclear facilities in Yongbyon. He says the IAEA team was satisfied with their visit and that five places would be subjected to IAEA inspections.

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IAEA team satisfied with Yongbyon inspection tour

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to reporters in Pyongyang on June 29 after returning from a visit to North Korea's nuclear facilities in Yongbyon. He says the IAEA team was satisfied with their visit and that five places would be subjected to IAEA inspections.

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IAEA team leaves for Yongbyon

PYONGYANG, North Korea - International Atomic Energy Agency Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen (C) leaves for Yongbyon on June 28 to visit the country's key nuclear facility. ''We are going to see the facilities and continue our discussion,'' Heinonen said.

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IAEA team leaves for Yongbyon

PYONGYANG, North Korea - International Atomic Energy Agency Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen speaks to journalists at a Pyongyang hotel on June 28 before leaving for Yongbyon, where his team will visit the country's key nuclear facility. ''We are going to see the facilities and continue our discussion,'' Heinonen said.

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IAEA delegation arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen (C), deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrives at Pyongyang airport June 26 to discuss with North Korea the shutting down, sealing and monitoring of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

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IAEA delegation arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen (L), deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fields questions from reporters on arrival at Pyongyang airport June 26 to discuss with North Korea the shutting down, sealing and monitoring of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

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IAEA delegation arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen (R), deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrives at Pyongyang airport June 26 to discuss with North Korea the shutting down, sealing and monitoring of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

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IAEA delegation arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen (C), deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and his delegation arrive at Pyongyang airport June 26 to discuss with North Korea the shutting down, sealing and monitoring of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

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IAEA delegation arrives in Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Olli Heinonen (L), deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is greeted by an official of North Korea's General Bureau of Atomic Energy, on arrival at Pyongyang airport June 26 to discuss with N. Korea the shutting down, sealing and monitoring of its Yongbyon nuclear facility.

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N. Korea to shut Yongbyon in 3 weeks: Hill

TOKYO, Japan - Christopher Hill (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters after a meeting with Kenichiro Sasae (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, in Tokyo on June 24. Hill, who traveled to North Korea this week, said Pyongyang will shut down the Yongbyon nuclear facility ''within probably three weeks.''

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N. Korea to shut Yongbyon in 3 weeks: Hill

TOKYO, Japan - Christopher Hill (L), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters after a meeting with Kenichiro Sasae (R), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, in Tokyo on June 24. Hill, who traveled to North Korea this week, said Pyongyang will shut down the Yongbyon nuclear facility ''within probably three weeks.''

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N. Korea to shut Yongbyon nuclear facility within 3 weeks: Hill

TOKYO, Japan - Christopher Hill (R), U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, meets with Kenichiro Sasae, director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, at the Foreign Ministry on June 23 to brief him on his trip to North Korea this week. Hill says North Korea will shut down its Yongbyon nuclear facility within three weeks.

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N. Korea to seal nuke complex in late July: report

BEIJING, China - Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, tells a news conference in Beijing on June 18 that he expects North Korea to carry out the process of freezing and sealing its Yongbyon nuclear facility in ''weeks, not months.'' Quoting a North Korean diplomatic source, Russia's Interfax news agency said it will take about a month for North Korea to freeze the reactor.

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N. Korea to seal nuke complex in late July: report

SEOUL, South Korea - Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters on arrival at Inchon airport outside Seoul on June 18. Hill told reporters earlier in Beijing that he expects North Korea to complete the process of freezing and sealing its Yongbyon nuclear facility in ''weeks, not months.'' Quoting a North Korean diplomatic source, the Russian Interfax news agency said the process would be completed in the second half of July

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N. Korea moving to seal Yongbyon nuke facility

BEIJING, China - Australian diplomat Peter Baxter tells reporters in Beijing March 15 that North Korea has confirmed planning is under way for the sealing of its Yongbyon nuclear complex in accordance with the six-party agreement reached last month. Baxter met reporters on returning from Pyongyang, where he led a four-day Australian mission.

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(2)U.S. team inspects Yongbyon nuclear complex

BEIJING, China - John Wilson Lewis (R), a professor emeritus at Stanford University, and Sig Hecker (L), former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, speak to reporters at Beijing airport on Jan. 10 after inspecting North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex with three other team members.

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U.S. team inspects N. Korea Yongbyon nuclear complex

BEIJING, China - Jack Pritchard, former U.S. presidential envoy on the Korean Peninsula, returns to Beijing airport Jan. 10 after ending a five-day visit to North Korea to inspect the country's Yongbyon nuclear complex and exchange views on nuclear issues with senior Pyongyang officials.

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U.S. envoy leaves N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sung Kim, the U.S. State Department's top Korea expert, leaves a hotel in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on June 28 after attending the demolition of a cooling tower attached to the country's key Yongbyon nuclear reactor the day before. (Kyodo)

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IAEA shows photo of seals removed from N. Korea nuke complex

VIENNA, Austria - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) photo disclosed Jan. 7 shows seals removed from North Korea's nuclear facilities in Yongbyon. The seals were brought back by one of two IAEA inspectors expelled from the country on New Year's Eve. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea asks IAEA to remove seals at Yongbyon nuclear facility

VIENNA, Austria - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohammed ElBaradei attends an IAEA board meeting in Vienna on Sept. 22. ElBaradei said North Korea has asked the U.N. nuclear watchdog to remove seals and surveillance equipment at a nuclear reprocessing facility in Yongbyon. (Kyodo)

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U.S. official leaves Pyongyang after visit to Yongbyon

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sung Kim (L), director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Korea Affairs, leaves his hotel in Pyongyang en route to South Korea on Sept. 15 , after a team of U.S., Chinese and Russian nuclear experts concluded a visit to North Korea to inspect the North Korean nuclear complex in Yongbyon. (Kyodo)

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U.S., Chinese, Russian nuke experts visit 3 N. Korea facilities

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sung Kim, director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Korea Affairs, returns to his hotel in Pyongyang on Sept. 13 after he and a team of U.S., Chinese and Russian nuclear experts inspected three facilities in Yongbyon nuclear complex during a two-day visit there. Kim said he found the trip ''useful.'' (Kyodo)

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U.S., Chinese, Russian nuke experts visit 3 N. Korea facilities

PYONGYANG, North Korea - U.S., Chinese and Russian nuclear experts return to their hotel in Pyongyang on Sept. 13 after inspecting three facilities in Yongbyon nuclear complex during a two-day visit there. Sung Kim, director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Korea Affairs, said he found the trip ''useful.'' (Kyodo)

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U.S., Chinese, Russian nuke experts leave for Yongbyon

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sung Kim, deputy chief of the U.S. delegation to the six-party nuclear talks, leaves a hotel in Pyongyang on Sept. 12 for North Korea's nuclear complex in Yongbyon. Kim heads a team of nuclear experts from the United States, China and Russia to examine ways to disable nuclear facilities under the February six-party deal. (Kyodo)