WASHINGTON — North Korea today will provide a long-awaited declaration detailing its nuclear weapons programs, a potential breakthrough in a 17-year-long effort to rid the Stalinist state of nuclear arms, U.S. officials said.
North Korea’s tally of its weapons work, which initially will be delivered to China, the chair of the six-nation nuclear talks, will trigger a rapid series of events that eventually could lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the isolated communist nation.
Also today, President Bush is expected to announce that he intends to remove North Korea from the U.S. government’s list of nations that sponsor terrorism and waive it from the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act, which bars almost all commerce.
