North Korea off terror list; nuclear agreement resumes

The U.S. has taken North Korea off the list of state sponsors of terrorism, after saying Pyongyang agreed to steps to verify its nuclear dismantlement and pledged to resume disabling its atomic plants. The deal announced by the State Department Saturday aimed at reviving the historic six-party negotiations that we threatened with collapse. Angered at the U.S. refusal to remove it from the blacklist, North Korea in the last few weeks moved toward restarting its nuclear reactor.   "We're getting something for nothing: taking them off the list they don't belong on," said Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione told AFP. The State Department says the North is not known to have sponsored any terrorist acts since 1987.