U.S. Working Delegation to Visit DPRKA U.S. State Department working delegation is to pay an additional visit to the underground facility in Kumchang-ri, North Phyongan Province of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the Korean Central News Agency reported Monday.The delegation, at the invitation of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, is expected to arrive Tuesday and visit the facility in accordance with its itinerary, said the report. A U.S. working delegation visited the Kumchang-ri site last May as it claimed that the facility was a suspected nuclear weapons installation. After the investigations the delegation said what they found at the underground site was an empty tunnel. Under an agreement reached between the United States and the DPRK in March 1999, the DPRK allowed U.S. experts to "enter" the underground facilities in Kumchang-ri last May in return for a U.S. pledge to improve relations with the east Asian country. |
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