North Korea hands over nuclear declaration; Rice; Yongbyong cooling tower dismantled
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  • North Korea handed over its much-delayed and eagerly-awaited nuclear declaration on June 26, outlining details about Pyongyang's plutonium-production program. US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice in a joint press conference with the South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan in Seoul however stated that North Korea had not still addressed US suspicious of enriching uranium and proliferation of technology to countries like Syria1. She was on a visit to Japan, South Korea and China2.

    The declaration was followed by the destruction of the Yongbyong cooling tower. Sung Kim, the US State Department's top expert on the Koreas who attended the demolition, termed it as “a very important step in the disablement process3.”

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