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BEIJING (AP) - A second team of U.N. nuclear experts arrived in Beijing Friday on their way to North Korea to monitor the shutdown and sealing of the country's sole plutonium-producing reactor.
The six-member International Atomic Energy Agency team will replace an initial team that went to North Korea on July 12 to supervise the shutdown of the Yongbyon reactor, the key component of the North's nuclear program.
"I am leading the second verification mission to the DPRK," Ryszard Zarucki, a Pole, told reporters at the Beijing airport. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the formal name of North Korea.
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