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U.S. top nuclear envoy to North Korea Christopher Hill speaking to South Korean media last week (Reuters)
Last update - 07:29 10/10/2008
Report: North Korea accepts U.S. compromise on nuclear disarmament
By The Associated Press
Tags: nuclear program, U.S. 

The United States and North Korea have agreed on a compromise to get the communist nation to resume dismantling its nuclear program, a news report said Friday.

The deal also calls for Washington to remove Pyongyang from the U.S. list of states sponsoring terrorism, a key North Korean demand over which the
communist nation has been flouting a disarmament pact, Seoul's Chosun Ilbo newspaper said.
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The reported breakthrough was reached when chief U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill visited Pyongyang last week, the paper said quoting an unnamed South Korean official.

It said the United States is expected to announce the deal as soon as President George W. Bush approves it.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency, also without naming sources, carried a similar report earlier.

The reports of a breakthrough contradict an announcement Thursday by the UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency that North Korea has banned its inspectors from the entire Yongbyon nuclear complex. That move was taken as a sign that the North plans to pull out of the disarmament pact.

South Korea's Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young said he has no information on the reports.

If confirmed, the deal would cap tension in the nuclear standoff that has spiraled following the North's decision to abandon the 2007 disarmament-for-aid pact reached in six-nation talks involving China, Japan, the two Koreas, the United States and Russia.

In mid-August, Pyongyang stopped disabling its Yongbyon nuclear facility and has since worked to restore it.

North Korea is angry it has not been removed from the U.S. terrorism list. The United States has said it would fulfill the obligation only after Pyongyang accepts a plan to verify its nuclear programs.

Earlier this week, North Korea stoked further tension by apparently test-firing short-range missiles. Reports have said the North has deployed an arsenal of missiles for more test launches around its disputed waters with South Korea.

On Thursday, the North's navy warned the South against provoking war, accusing Seoul of encroaching on its territory around the disputed sea border off the divided peninsula's west coast.

South Korea rejected the accusations, saying it has never violated the maritime boundary.

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