US envoy back from Pyongyang with nuclear documents

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(10 May 2008) • • 1. Wide pan of the Panmunjom inter-Korean truce village • 2 Mid of a North Korean solider • 3. Mid of North Korean military officials • 4. Wide of top United States diplomat, Sung Kim, coming out of a door before returning from Pyongyang to Seoul • 5. Mid-shot of Kim coming down the stairs, followed by US officials • 6. Zoom-in of Kim and US officials with seven boxes • 7. Wide of Kim before crossing the border • 8. Close-up of the boxes, tilt-up to Kim as he crosses the border with US officials • 9. Kim walking on southern side of border • 10. A van from the US Embassy leaving • 11. North Korean military officials walking into their building • • • STORYLINE: • • A United States diplomat left North Korea on Saturday with boxes of documents detailing activities at the nuclear reactor that is at the heart of the communist country's nuclear weapons program. • • Washington plans to scrutinise the technical logs from the Yongbyon reactor to see if the North is telling the truth about a bomb program that it has agreed to trade away for economic and political rewards. • • Sung Kim, the US State Department's top Korea specialist, returned to South Korea by land across the heavily fortified border after collecting approximately 18-thousand secret papers during a three-day visit to Pyongyang. • • Kim and four accompanying officials crossed the border at the truce village of Panmunjom, inside the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas, carrying seven small boxes. • • The North's handover of the sensitive records came as last year's disarmament-for-aid deal remained stalled due to Pyongyang's failure to fully disclose its nuclear programs. • • Washington has accused the North, which conducted its first nuclear test in 2006, of refusing to address suspicions that it pursued a uranium-based nuclear program and transferred nuclear technology to Syria. • • Washington and Pyongyang agreed last month to break the impasse in a way that requires North Korea to acknowledge those concerns and to set up a system to verify that the country does not conduct such activities in the future. • • The US scrutiny of the North Korean records was expected to focus on the amount of plutonium - a key nuclear bomb ingredient - that the North has produced from spent fuel from the Yongbyon reactor. • • The reactor has been shuttered and was being disabled under last year's agreement. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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