IAEA chief says NKorea has closed five nuclear facilities

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - U.N. inspectors have verified that North Korea has shut down four more nuclear facilities beyond its sole working reactor, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Wednesday.

"We have verified all the five nuclear facilities have been shut down," said Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency,

Some of the facilities have also been sealed by the U.N. inspectors, ElBaradei told reporters during a visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.