US-North Korea Nuclear Deal

The United States will soon be finalizing its deal with North Korea over its Nuclear Program. The deal requires North Korea to finish disabling its nuclear reactor and provide a full accounting of its plutonium stockpile. North Korea also has to acknowledge concerns about its proliferation and uranium enrichment activities and agree to continue cooperation with a verification process to ensure no further activities.

The U.S. military intelligence is now closely watching a North Korean missile launch site after seeing signs of activity in recent days. In recent weeks, U.S. satellite imagery of the site at Sinori, North Korea, northwest of Pyongyang, has shown movement of military personnel, vehicles and some equipment to the site that had not been seen there on a regular basis.

The officials said it is less important to have North Korea "confess" to its past activities than it is to find a formula under which the parties have an understanding of North Korea's nuclear program. In exchange, North Korea will be removed from the United States' list of state sponsors of terrorism and would have sanctions removed under the Trading with the Enemy Act.