North Korea Gets Oil for Closing Reactor

SEOUL, South Korea - U.N. inspectors arrived in North Korea on Saturday to monitor the communist country's long-anticipated promise to scale back its nuclear weapons program.

An initial shipment of oil aid arrived hours earlier in return for Pyongyang's pledge to close down its main nuclear reactor. The expected move would be the North's first step in nearly five years toward the de-nuclearization of the peninsula.

The 10-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency was expected to head to Yongbyon, about 60 miles northeast of the capital, later Saturday to begin monitoring the shutdown of the North's plutonium-producing reactor.

After years of …