Byline: Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

North Korea yesterday gave the United Sates eight boxes of documents from its nuclear weapons program dating back to 1990 - a move that U.S. officials said clears the way for the North to be removed from the blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism.

More than 18,000 pages of records, whose pending transfer was first reported by The Washington Times last week, were given to Sung Kim, director of the State Department's Korea desk, who visited Pyongyang for the second time in two weeks.

"He is going to bring with him a significant number of documents related to North Korea's plutonium program," State Department spokesman ...