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Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:06 pm
North Korea has agreed to hand over a list of its still-unknown uranium and plutonium enrichment facilities inside the country, as its leader Kim Jong-un promised to dismantle all of its such facilities, not just the regime's well-known Yongbyon site, a top U.S. nuclear envoy said, early Friday (KST).
Stephen Biegun, the special representative for North Korea, said in a speech at Stanford University in California that the North has "committed to the dismantlement and destruction" of all its uranium and plutonium enrichment facilities both to U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and to leaders in Seoul.
The Korea Times reported that Washington wants North Korea to provide a list of its uranium enrichment facilities as a key prerequisite in exchange for possible easing of economic sanctions.
"In describing to us their commitment to dismantle and destroy plutonium and uranium enrichment facilities, the North Koreans also added the critical words and more. This is essential as there is more, much more," Biegun said during his speech.
"This complex of sites extending beyond Yongbyon represents the totality of the North Korean plutonium reprocessing and uranium enrichment programs," the envoy said, adding North Korea wants Washington to take "corresponding measures," which he will discuss with North Korean officials in upcoming talks.
The U.S. representative stressed Washington will not lift its sanctions placed on North Korea until denuclearization is complete. According to him, there was no "detailed or shared agreement on the definition of what denuclearization entails."
"Our view is that it entails the elimination of totality of weapons of mass destruction programs in North Korea," he said, assuring that the United States will not invade North Korea.
The "no invasion" initiative is understood by many in Seoul that the United States won't seek regime change in North Korea by providing it security guarantees.
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article … Idx=263093
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