FACTBOX: Key points from North Korea nuclear statement

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it will stop disabling its nuclear facilities and consider restoring the Yongbyon reactor that can make material for atomic bombs, accusing United States of violating a disarmament deal.

The following are key parts from the statement by the North's foreign ministry spokesman:

Under the October 3 agreement stipulating the practical measures to be taken at the second phase for the implementation of the September 19 joint statement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the DPRK was committed to presenting a nuclear declaration and the U.S. was also committed to writing the DPRK off the list of the "state sponsors of terrorism."

The DPRK has honored its commitment by presenting the nuclear declaration on June 26.

But the U.S. failed to delist the DPRK as a "state sponsor of terrorism" within the fixed date for the mere "reason" that a protocol on the verification of the nuclear declaration has not yet been agreed upon.

This was an outright violation of the agreement.

As far as the verification is concerned, it is a commitment to be fulfilled by the six parties at the final phase of the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula according to the September 19 joint statement.

It should be verified that there are no U.S. nuclear weapons in and around South Korea and that there has been neither new shipment nor passage of those weapons.

The U.S. is gravely mistaken if it thinks it can make a house search in the DPRK as it pleases just as it did in Iraq.

The DPRK does not care whether it continues remaining on the list of "those countries which are disobedient to the U.S."

Now that the U.S. breached the agreed points, the DPRK is compelled to take the following countermeasures on the principle of "action for action":

First, the DPRK decided to immediately suspend the disablement of its nuclear facilities that had been underway according to the October 3 agreement.

This step took effect on August 14 and the parties concerned have already been notified of this.

Second, the DPRK will consider soon a step to restore the nuclear facilities in Yongbyon to their original state as strongly requested by its relevant institutions.