IAEA team on the way to N Korea
Ap, Beijing
A second team of UN nuclear experts arrived in Beijing yesterday on their way to North Korea to monitor the shutdown and sealing of the country's sole plutonium-producing reactor. The six-member International Atomic Energy Agency team will replace an initial team that went to North Korea on July 12 to supervise the shutdown of the Yongbyon reactor, the key component of the North's nuclear programme. "I am leading the second verification mission to the DPRK," Ryszard Zarucki, a Pole, told reporters at the Beijing airport. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the formal name of North Korea. "We will travel tomorrow to Pyongyang and will continue activities as stated in the board documents," he said, referring to the IAEA board. Once it arrives on Saturday, the team is expected to stay in North Korea for about two weeks. Officials said the team would put agency seals on parts of the complex that have been closed and supervise the installation of surveillance cameras, whose recordings will be regularly downloaded and analysed.
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