North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is expected to announce during a North Korean-Japanese summit scheduled for next week that North Korea will cooperate with International Atomic Energy Agency inspections, officials said yesterday (see GSN, Sept. 3).

North Korea indicated its willingness to begin to cooperate with the inspections during summit preparatory meetings, the officials said.  North Korean officials said Pyongyang will begin to collect information on nuclear facilities, accept visits by experts and select equipment to be used in the inspections, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun.

North Korean and Japanese negotiators have also discussed whether a statement to be released after the summit would include an agreement that North Korea will cooperate with the inspections, officials said.

The inspections are required under the 1994 Agreed Framework under which North Korea agreed to disband its nuclear program in exchange for two U.S.-built light-water nuclear power reactors (Yomiuri Shimbun, Sept. 12).

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