North Korea claimed Friday that the United States had agreed to remove it from a list of terror-sponsoring nations and lift other sanctions after Pyongyang disables its nuclear facilities.

A report from the North's official Korean Central News Agency said the "United States decided to take such political measures as delisting the (North) as a terrorism sponsor at international arms talks."

The North also said Washington would stop treating the communist nation under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act, a measure that restricts trade, in return for the North's neutralization of its nuclear facilities by the end of 2007.