(Guardian) Experts from America, Russia and China will travel to North Korea later this month to study how the country's nuclear facilities can be shut down, a senior US official announced today.
The group will travel at the specific invitation of the country's leader, Kim Jong-Il, said Christopher Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
"This is an idea the North Koreans came up with," Mr Hill told reporters on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Sydney. "I don't think it will be the only such trip," he was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.