NKorea off US blacklist after nuke inspection deal (AP)

AP - After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from a terrorism blacklist the communist country President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil."

AFP - The United States said on Saturday that it is striking North Korea from a terrorism blacklist as Washington worked furiously to salvage a historic nuclear disarmament deal.

AFP - South Korea indicated Monday it could go ahead with a steel shipment to impoverished North Korea after Pyongyang and Washington reached a deal to save a six-nation nuclear disarmament pact.

AFP - North Korea said on Sunday that it would resume work to disable plutonium-producing nuclear plants and readmit UN inspectors after the United States removed it from a terrorism blacklist.

AFP - South Korea said Sunday that a US decision to take North Korea off its terrorism blacklist put the communist state's nuclear disarmament back on track, but a Japanese minister called the move "extremely regrettable."

AFP - South Korea said Monday it hopes a US move to drop North Korea from a terror blacklist will warm Seoul's chilly ties with the communist state, but conservative media slammed the move as "unprincipled."

atom bomb.(AFP/Graphic)" border="0" />AFP - Secretive North Korea was preparing a global TV spectacular Friday to dramatise its commitment to scrapping nuclear weapons, as world powers gave a wary welcome to its disclosure of some atomic secrets.