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 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea restated its commitment to a landmark nuclear disarmament deal Friday, saying it would invite U.N. atomic inspectors and discuss shutting down its bomb-making atomic reactor as soon as it confirmed the release of its funds frozen in a banking dispute.
The statement appeared aimed at quelling concern that the unpredictable regime — which has a track record of reaching agreements and then scrapping them — may be dragging its feet after missing an April 14 deadline to shut down the reactor.
The North's atomic agency chief, Ri Je Son, sent a message to the International Atomic Energy Agency to say that the country remained committed to the Feb. 13 agreement that set the deadline, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
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