| North Korea is taking steps to carry out promises it | | | | visit San Francisco next Thursday for a lecture at |
| made earlier this month in a landmark nuclear | | | | Stanford University. |
| agreement. | | | | After the lecture, reports say Kim will head to New |
| On Friday, Pyongyang invited the United Nations top | | | | York for a meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Assistant |
| atomic energy chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, to visit | | | | Secretary of State Christopher Hill. |
| Pyongyang for the first time since the watchdog | | | | Neither North Korean nor U.S. officials have confirmed |
| body's inspectors were kicked out of the country | | | | the report. |
| more than four years ago. | | | | Earlier this month, North Korea agreed to close its main |
| ElBaradei is likely travel to Pyongyang in March where | | | | nuclear facility and allow atomic energy inspectors in |
| he will discuss the shutdown of its nuclear facilities and | | | | the country within 60 days in exchange for energy aid. |
| the possible re-establishment of relations between | | | | North Korea expelled IAEA weapons inspectors in late |
| North Korea and the International Atomic Energy | | | | December 2002, and officially withdrew from the |
| Agency. | | | | Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in January 2003. |
| Saturday, South Korean newspapers report that North | | | | Some information for this report was provided by AP |
| Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Kwan will | | | | and Reuters. |