World | North Korea North Korea Hands Nuclear Docs to US Move may show improved relations between the countries By Matt Cantor Posted May 8, 2008 2:12 PM CDT Copied The State Department's top Korea specialist, Sung Kim, right, is surrounded by reporters upon his arrival at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea, April 24, 2008. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man) Seeming to move closer to US demands for information, North Korea handed key documents on its nuclear weapons program to an American diplomat today, the AP reports. The records provide information on the North’s silenced plutonium reactor, and would allow American officials to fact-check a still-awaited summary of the country’s nuclear workings. The development wasn't the only one that could signal a thaw in relations between the countries: A deal could be close on US food aid to the North, which has depended on foreign help to fight famine since the mid-1990s. An earlier US attempt to provide food failed after the US insisted on overseeing distribution, but the North has warmed to US monitoring. Read These Next It's a survival story fit for a sea shanty. Off-roading crash claims life of influencer couple Dee from the show What's Happening!! is dead at 60. For first time, SCOTUS is asked to overturn gay marriage ruling. Report an error