North Korea says it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities at Yongbyon complex

North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed the communist country from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.

The North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it will again allow U.S. and International Atomic Energy Agency inspections at Yongbyon to verify the disablement process, pledged under a previous disarmament-for-aid deal with the United States and four other regional powers.

North Korea halted the disablement in mid-August in anger at Washington over what it called a delay in the terror delisting and began moves aimed at potentially restarting the plutonium-producing facility north of Pyongyang.

The U.S. had said the North had to first allow verification of its declaration of nuclear programs submitted in June.

-From Associated Press reports