Official festivities are under way in North Korea to mark the 65th birthday of the country's leader, Kim Jong Il. Celebrations are being held after a breakthrough deal on Pyongyang's nuclear program was reached on Tuesday in Beijing. North Korea agreed to shut down its main nuclear reactor and allow U.N. inspectors back into the country. Charles Scanlon is in Seoul in South Korea with the latest.

>> These are set piece events. It's a big public holiday. It happens every year. The North Koreans still have this capability of mobilizing the entire population for these sort of events. It's a very big show. And people pretty much do what they're told on occasions like this.

>> How are people in Seoul viewing this?

>> They're pretty blase. They don't take that much interest in South Korea on events like this. It won't be given that much coverage in the media. But clearly the nuclear agreement that was reached earlier this week has sparked a lot of interest and a lot of debate here in South Korea. The government is seeing it as something of a breakthrough. They're talking about this is a potential turning point. But there are many others, critics of the deal who are saying the United States is basically caved in, there's move here to get rid of the nuclear weapons that North Korea already has. It's just a containment exercise to stop the one nuclear reactor.

>> Are they confident that Pyongyang will stick to the new deal?

>> Not really, no. I think there is an understanding here that every step of the way is going to be haggled over. The negotiations are probably going to go on for years to come. It's very hard to find someone who is confident that North Korea will actually give up that residual nuclear deterrent that it's already developed and which it's spent so many years developing.

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