U.S. Team to Visit Suspicious Site

U.S. experts will visit an underground construction site in North Korea on May 20 to try to determine whether a facility is being built for nuclear weapons development, North Korea said. The North’s Foreign Ministry invited a team of U.S. technical experts to visit the site in Kumchangri, northwest of the North’s capital, Pyongyang, the official Korean Central News Agency said. After lengthy negotiations, North Korea agreed in March to allow American inspectors to visit the site. The U.S. team will arrive in North Korea on Tuesday and begin its inspection of the underground area two days later, said KCNA, which was monitored in Seoul. Washington suspects that North Korea may be reactivating a nuclear weapons program frozen under a 1994 agreement with Washington.