An unofficial delegation of Americans who visited North Korea said today they had toured the country’s disputed Yongbyon nuclear facility.

A US DELEGATION flew to North Korea yesterday, hoping to visit a nuclear complex at the heart of the North’s atomic arms programme, as Pyongyang pitched what it called a “bold concession” to restart talks.

NORTH KOREA has agreed to allow a US delegation to visit its main nuclear complex next week, the first such inspection since the isolated communist country expelled UN monitors more than a year ago.

North Korea has agreed to allow a US delegation to visit its main nuclear complex next week, a South Korean official said today.