U.S. Wants North Korea's Nuclear Engineers To Be Relocated To Other Countries

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, gives orders on a project to manufacture nuclear weapons. The date is unknown. This photo was distributed by the Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 3, 2017. (Korea News Service)

Asahi Shimbun: U.S. seeks the relocation of N. Korean nuclear engineers

SEOUL--In preliminary negotiations before their upcoming summit, the United States is demanding that North Korea relocate its nuclear engineers to other countries and discard data from its nuclear development program.

The demands were made in preliminary discussions for the U.S.-North Korea summit scheduled to be held by early June, sources related to North Korea said on May 9.

However, North Korea is resisting the relocation of up to several thousand nuclear engineers and is taking a vague stance on the abandonment of data on its six nuclear experiments and nuclear-related facilities in Yongbyon, they added.

According to the sources, the United States also wants North Korea to abandon all its weapons of mass destruction, including biological and chemical weapons.

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