Magate inspectors examined the nuclear center in Yonben: he continues to work

The DPRK nuclear reactor with a capacity of 5 megawatts in Yonben continues to operate. This was stated to reporters by the Deputy General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Olla Hinone. He heads a group of experts of the agency, which completed a two-day inspection of the nuclear center Yonben and returned to Pyongyang on Friday, ITAR-TASS reports.

The head of the delegation, the IAEA expressed satisfaction with the trip, saying that the experts "saw everything they wanted to see." Heinonon emphasized that the North Korean side actively collaborated with the delegation.

In addition to the only reactor operating in the DPRK, the North Korean side showed the Magate delegation also a radiochemical laboratory. It is to these objects that priority attention is paid to, since weapon plutonium is developed with their help. Magate experts saw other facilities, including another 50 megavatt reactor and a nuclear fuel processing factory.

According to the members of the delegation, stopping and sealing in Yonben, in accordance with the February agreements in six -way negotiations on the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula, five objects are subject to. According to these agreements, the DPRK must in return receive energy assistance equivalent to 50 thousand tons of fuel oil.

Between South and North Korea on Friday, negotiations began on the conditions for the provision of the DPRK energy assistance to the South Koreans. Negotiations are held in the North Korean border city of Keson and last two days.

The representative of the South Korean Ministry of Association told reporters that the results were expected to sign an agreement on the first energy supplies. He did not specify when they could begin, Interfax reports.

According to preliminary data, at the initial stage it is planned to transfer 50 thousand tons of diesel fuel to North Korea.