Oil shipments begin to N Korea

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The first shipment of fuel oil to North Korea - part of an aid-for-disarmament pact agreed in February - has left port on a tanker from South Korea.

The delivery comes as the first part of an initial 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil pledged to the North in return for shutting down its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.

The first delivery of some 6,200 tonnes of oil is expected to arrive in North Korea's post of Sonbong at the weekend.

Last week North Korea promised to suspend operations at its nuclear facilities as soon as the first shipment of heavy fuel arrives.

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