After making them wait anxiously for days, North Korea finally allowed a group of South Korean journalists to fly in to witness the dismantling of its nuclear test site scheduled for this week.
The go-ahead - which analysts take as a goodwill gesture from the North - came after Pyongyang was riled by a joint US-South Korea military exercise last week and pulled out of high-level talks with Seoul.
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