Thursday, March 01, 2007

North Korea Vows to Abandon its Nuclear Weapons

ChinaDaily.com has an AP report that says... North Korea's No. 2 leader reiterated Thursday his country's pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the country sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test... Kim Yong Nam said "the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is the dying wish" of the country's founding president, Kim Il Sung, the father of current leader Kim Jong Il...

On into the story they write... The North wants to resume separate discussions this month on economic cooperation that would address aid, but South Korea prefers to wait until after April 14 -- the deadline for Pyongyang to switch off its nuclear reactor...

Read the story in full at link below...
North Korea vows to stop nuke program

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