According to the Financial Times, North Korea no longer will be required to provide a complete declaration of its nuclear activities under with the US.
Pyongyang last year agreed to produce a “complete” declaration of its nuclear activities as part of the six-party agreement reached with the US, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia.
The US previously insisted the declaration include details about past uranium-enrichment activities and the proliferation of nuclear technology to Syria. The US has accused Pyongyang of helping Damascus build a secret nuclear reactor that Israel destroyed in a mysterious air strike last year.
After struggling for months to persuade North Korea to provide a full declaration, however, the US has decided to compromise. Christopher Hill (see bio), the US negotiator on North Korea, has reached a tentative deal under which Pyongyang would only “acknowledge” US concerns about uranium and proliferation, in a secret side-agreement.
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