The International Atomic Energy Agency said inspectors who arrived in North Korea last week had visited atomic sites in the communist state and confirmed all work had come to a halt.
"The IAEA team visited the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon and Taechon and confirmed that these facilities were not in operation and that construction work had stopped," IAEA said in a statement.
North Korea has agreed to freeze its nuclear program in return for Western help and cash to build light-water reactors which produce less of the plutonium that can be used to make nuclear arms.
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