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Submitted by ctv_en_3 on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 11:00
A top US negotiator has arrived in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to salvage a nuclear deal, weeks after Pyongyang began to reinstate its plutonium programme.

Christopher Hill is expected to offer a compromise, after the initial deal fell apart amid wrangling over how much verification the DPRK had to give. The isolated state had disabled some of its facilities as part of the deal.


Mr Hill's visit comes amid rumours that the DPRK’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, is seriously ill.


For years Pyongyang has been locked in talks over its nuclear ambitions with the US, China, Japan, Russia and the Republic of Korea.


A deal was agreed last year and Pyongyang began dismantling its facilities in November 2007. It handed over documentation on the programme in June this year, but Washington demanded further verification of the claims before removing the DPRK from its list of states sponsoring terrorism.

 

BBC

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