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US, DPRK to sign N-pact today
GENEVA. Oct 20: North Korea's mission In Geneva will host the signing of the landmark nuclear pact with the United States that the long hostile powers completed ear Iler this week, officials said today. reports Reuter
The pact, hailed by US President Bill Clinton as presaging the isolated communist North Korea's full entry into the world community, was formally endorsed earlier today by its new leader Kim Jong 11.
Officials in the Unites States. Japan and South Korea — the countries most concerned by a perceived nuclear threat from the maverick North —say they liope it signals an end to the tension that has persisted In the region since the 1950-53 Korean war
The ceremony, which will formalise an emerging rela lionship between Washington and Pyongyang as well as commit the North to improve ties with South Korea, is due to begin at around 3 pm (1400 GMT) tomorrow In tlie elegant lakeside villa
Signing for the United States wifi be ambassador at-
large Robert Gallucci. who pursued the deal over two years of tough bargaining and through two crises sparked by North Korean threats to pull out of International nuclear accords.
For Pyongyang, the text will be signed by Its First Deputy Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju. Gallucci's counterpart in the negotiations who Western off! clals say represents a new and 'more open face for his country's diplomacy,
Under the deal, criticised by some US political leaders for giving too much to Pyongyang North Korea freezes and then dismantles Its current nuclear programme that could have produced enough plutonium for hundreds of atomic weapons.
in return, it gets a pledge of compensation in the form of oil for lost energy and the de livery over the next few years of new and safer nucidar plant that will be financed by a US-led International consortium with the South In a central role.
An agreement between the United States and North Korea to freeze, dismantle and eventually replace North Korea's nuclear programme could significantly delay international atomic energy agency Inspections. IAEA director Hans Blix said in Vienna today.
Blix said North Korea's commitment to accept verifl-cation by the Vlenna-baacQ IAEA of Its nuclear inventory was welcome, "but there could be a further significant delay before the required full compliance with the safeguards agreement."
Meanwhile US Defence Secretary William Perry arrived In South Korea tonight for a brief visit during which he is expected to discuss new security arrangements following the pact with North Korea.