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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - North Korea continues to make progress toward an eventual shutdown of its main plutonium producing reactor by reaching an agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog on monitoring and verification.

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency is back in the North Korean capital from a 2-day trip to the nuclear complex. It was the first IAEA visit to the facility since UN monitors were expelled from the country in 2002.

IAEA Deputy Director Olli Heinonen says an agreement in principle has been reached on monitoring and verification of the shutdown.

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PYONGYANG, North Korea—The U.N. nuclear watchdog and North Korea have reached an agreement on how the agency will monitor and verify shutdown of the country's main nuclear reactor, a top official said Friday.

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency returned Friday to the North Korean capital from a two-day trip to the Yongbyon nuclear complex, broadcaster APTN reported.

It was the first IAEA visit to the facility since U.N. monitors were expelled from the country in 2002.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Forty-five years ago, Private First Class Joe Dresnok got fed up with the U.S. Army and decided to try his luck on the other side of the demilitarized zone, in North Korea.

A documentary crew in Beijing followed him in decades later, driven by curiosity over what had become of Dresnok and three other American soldiers who had married, raised families and become movie stars in Pyongyang.

"Crossing the Line" is the third film by Britons Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner of VeryMuchSo Productions. Their previous works portrayed the North Korean team that played in the World Cup in 1966, and followed two young gymnasts training for North Korea's Mass Games extravaganza.

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PYONGYANG, North Korea --The U.N. nuclear watchdog and North Korea have reached an agreement on how the agency will monitor and verify shutdown of the country's main nuclear reactor, a top official said Friday.

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency returned Friday to the North Korean capital from a two-day trip to the Yongbyon nuclear complex, broadcaster APTN reported.

It was the first IAEA visit to the facility since U.N. monitors were expelled from the country in 2002.

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The head of the U.N. delegation said he was "satisfied" with a tour of a North Korean reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to scrap under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo said.

The reactor at Yongbyon was still operating, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Safeguards Director Olli Heinonen was also quoted as saying on his return to Pyongyang.

The visit to the Yongbyon reactor, about 100 km (60 miles) north of Pyongyang, is the first by IAEA officials since Pyongyang kicked out the Vienna-based agency's inspectors in December 2002.

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