US envoy back from Pyongyang with nuclear documents

(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.

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