| A draft agreement reached at North Korean disarmament talks sets a timeframe for taking the country off a US terrorism blacklist, the North’s chief negotiator said on Tuesday, but he declined to be more specific. Kim Kye-gwan, when asked whether the deal sets a date for getting off the list, said: “You’ll know when you see the agreement, but the timing is specified.” He was speaking to journalists at Beijing airport, on his way back to Pyongyang. Removing North Korea from the list is one of the inducements promised to the country under a breakthrough February deal that has seen Pyongyang shut down and seal its main nuclear reactor and admit UN nuclear inspectors into the facilities. Diplomatic sources had earlier said that the US side rejected including a specific timeframe in the document. |