A Japanese newspaper on Saturday said North Korea insisted in disarmament talks this month that it would only declare and disable three nuclear facilities - none of them with atomic weapons. Under a landmark February deal, the secretive communist state agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons programmes in exchange for aid and diplomatic concessions, and it has already shut down its main Yongbyon nuclear facility. But in the next stage of the six-nation disarmament deal, the North has committed to declaring and disabling all its nuclear facilities. In a story datelined from China, where talks on the so-called “declare and disable” stage were held earlier this month, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper said North Korea had announced it would only list three sites. All three are at the Yongbyon facility, the paper said, citing sources close to the negotiations. It said the North Korean delegation did not refer to other facilities that the five other nations suspect exist.