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N Korea demands US lift sanctions
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By Agencies
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 | | Kim was on a surprise stopover at Tokyo's airport on the way to Beijing |
North Korea's top nuclear negotiator has said that the US must lift sanctions before it moves to shut down its nuclear reactor.
"The US promised to resolve the problem of sanctions against our country within 30 days," Kim Kye-gwan said.
"If this promise is kept, then we will shut down our nuclear facilities in 60 days," he said in Tokyo on Thursday en route to Beijing.
Last month the North signed an accord with five other countries agreeing to shut down its main nuclear reactor by mid-April in exchange for oil and other aid.
Pyongyang would be watching Washington's moves closely, Japanese media quoted Kim as saying. He refused to discuss the country's weapons until Washington made the first move.
Kim was in New York this week for the first meeting of the US-North Korea Working Group, one of five that were established under the February six-party accord.
North Korea agreed on February 13 to meet a 60-day deadline for disarming its nuclear weapons programme and allow inspectors back in.
In exchange, it was promised aid equal to 50,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil from the other signatories – the US, South Korea, Russia, China and Japan.
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