United Nations inspectors say they’ve verified North Korea’s shutdown of its five nuclear facilities.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed ElBaradei: “Yes, we now verified that all the five nuclear facilities has been shut down and that appropriate measures put in place including sealing some of these facilities. We expect that in the next few weeks we will continue to apply the necessary monitoring and verification measures. So the facilities, all the five facilities, are shut down. We have verified that.”

ElBaradei was speaking ahead of six-party talks that began in Beijing.