U.S. terms officials' visit to DPRK as experts level

The United States said Wednesday that the visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) by U.S., Chinese and Russian officials is an experts-level visit. "This is an experts-level visit," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. The officials from the three countries visited the reactor facility at Yongbyon, and "they saw everything that they have to see," McCormack said. "They're going to, tomorrow, be touring the rest of the facility. They're going to see the reprocessing facility, the fuel fabrication facility, and any other parts of the facility that they want to see, including the power generation plant," McCormack said. While on Friday, they will go to Pyongyang to have some discussions with DPRK officials, McCormack said, adding that the visit will feed into an envoys-level meeting that is going to take place in Beijing "in the near future." Officials from the United States, China and Russia headed Wednesday to the DPRK's Yongbyon nuclear facility to study how to disable it. This has been regarded as another positive step by the DPRK toward its nuclear disarmament.