North Korea agreed to provide a «complete and correct declaration» of its nuclear programs and will disable its facilities at its main reactor complex by Dec. 31 under an agreement reached by North Korea and five other countries released Wednesday. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei said as part of the agreement, the U.S. will take the lead in seeing that the facilities are disabled and will fund those initial activities. «The disablement of the five megawatt experimental reactor at Yongbyon, the reprocessing plant at Yongbyon and the nuclear fuel rod fabrication facility at Yongbyon will be completed by 31 December 2007,» Wu said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The agreement came after negotiations last week in Beijing involving China, the U.S., Japan, Russia and South and North Korea, the Associated Press reported.
