UN official to discuss nuclear reactor on North Korea visit

A senior official from the UN nuclear watchdog is preparing today for a rare visit to North Korea for discussions on how the agency’s inspectors would monitor and verify the shutdown of the Yongbyon nuclear reactor.

Olli Heinonen, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s deputy director general for safeguards, arrived in Beijing, China today and is due to fly to Pyongyang tomorrow for a five-day visit, with three colleagues.