UN agrees to send nuclear experts to N Korea

The UN’s nuclear agency today approved sending experts to North Korea to supervise the shutdown of its plutonium-producing reactor, the agency’s chief Mohamed ElBaradei said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors approved the mission at a special session focused on an IAEA report compiled by the agency’s deputy director general after a visit late last month to the North’s plutonium-producing Yongbyon facility.