United Nations inspectors have confirmed that North Korea has closed all of its nuclear facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear complex, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency told reporters Wednesday. The report came as negotiators met in Beijing for the latest round of six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear talks. The participants are the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia. "We now verified that all five nuclear facilities have been shut down and that appropriate measures have been put in place including sealing some of these facilities," International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. "We expect that in the next few weeks we will continue to apply necessary monitoring and verification measures, so all the five facility right now are shut down and we verified that," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
