North Korea lifts nuclear veil (CNN/Amanpour)

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By Christiane Amanpour
CNN

Editor's note: CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour recently toured North Korea's nuclear plant. CNN was one of only two U.S. news organizations at the facility.

YONGBYON, North Korea (CNN) -- The North Koreans haven't seen this many Americans since the Korean War, but they are pulling out all the stops.

CNN was one of only two American news organizations ever allowed to visit the main nuclear facility at Yongbyon.

For a nation President Bush labeled as part of the "axis of evil," it was not an impressive sight: a dilapidated concrete hulk, built with few resources back in the early '80s.

But it did produce plutonium, enough to make a few bombs and to test-fire a nuclear weapon 18 months ago.

Today is a very different story though. North Korea shut down Yongbyon last summer under an agreement with the United States and four other nations in the nuclear disarmament negotiations.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/25/ammanpour.nkorea/index.html

Meanwhile, Bu**sh** is footdragging on meeting the US side of the agreement. "Axis of evil" indeed.