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Tue 07 Jul 2007Inspectors to verify N Korean nuclear shutdownNORTH KOREA:The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body agreed yesterday to send monitors to North Korea to verify a shutdown of its atomic bomb programme, launching what is likely to be a long and arduous disarmament process.It would be the first International Atomic Energy Agency mission in the reclusive Stalinist state since it expelled IAEA inspectors in 2002 after Washington accused it of a clandestine effort to refine nuclear fuel.