Vienna- Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) started Tuesday to reinstall seals and cameras in its plutonium reprocessing plant, a source close to the agency said.

On Monday, the Vienna-based agency announced that the reclusive Stalinist state had reversed its ban on IAEA inspections, after the United States struck the country from its terrorism blacklist on Saturday.

In September, North Korea had ordered the IAEA to remove monitoring technology from its plutonium reprocessing facility in its Yongbyon nuclear complex.

New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed North Korea's decision to accept verification measures of its nuclear plant and called on the government there to completely disable its plutonium processing facility.

Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, welcomed Pyongyang's decision to re-admit inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after the United States government removed North Korea from the list of states sponsoring terrorism.

Vienna- North Korea has allowed inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) back into its nuclear facilities after banning them from doing their work last week, a Western diplomat told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Monday.

The development came after the US State Department announced on Saturday that North Korea had agreed to allow rigorous inspections of all its nuclear activities, in turn with Washington responding by removing the Stalinist state from a terrorism blacklist.

Seoul, Oct. 13 : North Korea welcomed its removal from Washington’s list of terrorism sponsors and confirmed on Sunday that it would resume disabling its main nuclear weapons complex and allow international monitors back to the site.

Washington’s decision to take North Korea off the list of state sponsors of terrorism, announced Saturday, is an important symbolic gesture for the North, an isolated and poverty-stricken country, removing one of hurdles to gaining a measure of international acceptance.

But there is much in Washington’s tortuous relationship with North Korea that stays the same, including economic sanctions against the North, says the New York Times.

Seoul - South Korea on Sunday welcomed the US government decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, saying the move promised important progress towards resolving the dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

South Korean nuclear negotiator Kim Sook said he now expected the case to be that North Korea would soon resume work to dismantle its controversial nuclear facilities.

Washington, Oct 12 : The United States has struck North Korea from a terror blacklist after saying that Pyongyang agreed to steps to verify its nuclear disarmament and pledged to resume disabling its atomic plants.

The deal announced by the State Department on Saturday aimed at reviving the historic six-party disarmament negotiations threatened with collapse just months before US President George W. Bush leaves office on January 20.

Angered at the US refusal to remove it from the blacklist, North Korea in the last few weeks moved toward restarting its nuclear reactor and other operations at Yongbyon, The News reported.