Breaking: North Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament?

Drudge has that flashing on his website, but I haven’t been able to find a story on it yet.

Here’s the most recent story I could find:

BEIJING (Reuters) – Delegates to six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program agreed to hold further talks on Tuesday, after meeting into the early hours, suggesting a deal may be in the offing.

The United States and North Korea haggled on Monday over energy aid the North would receive in exchange for ending its nuclear arms ambitions, but it looked like some sort of an agreement in six-party talks was emerging.

An initial session faltered over North Korea’s demand for a huge infusion of energy aid, but envoys stayed up into the early hours of Tuesday, improving prospects of a last-minute deal.

“The delegates worked very hard and made some progress but still need some discussion and will continue tomorrow,” a Chinese official told reporters after the meeting ended around 0230 on Tuesday (1830 GMT Monday).

China’s Xinhua news agency, quoting a South Korean official, said a joint document was likely to be adopted on Tuesday.

“According to the official, who speaks only on anonymity, the negotiation on the document has ‘reached the final phase’, Xinhua news agency said.

Update I: Via AP:

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. envoy says talks on North Korea’s nuclear program have reached a tentative agreement for disarmament.

As of this writing (2:35 PM ET) that’s the only news link I’ve seen on this, and that’s all they have written so far. Keep checking that link as I’m sure it’ll be updated with more info as it becomes available.

Update II: Here’s a better link.

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