North Korea says nuclear declaration submitted

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday it had given an accounting of its nuclear arms program as required in an international disarmament deal that called on the secretive state to make the declaration by the end of 2007.

"We have already drawn up a nuclear report in November and have notified the United States of it," its KCNA news agency quoted an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.

The U.S. State Department said a few days ago that North Korea did not meet the deadline of providing a full list of its nuclear arms program as required in the deal it struck in 2007 with regional powers.

(Reporting by Yoo Choonsik; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Alex Richardson)