North Korea puts on table conditions for negotiations
19 April 2013 6:40 AM IST
North Korea Thursday listed conditions for resuming talks with Washington and Seoul amid festering tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea’s National Defense Commission urged the US and South Korea to stop provocations, fully apologise for their aggressions, and give assurances not to carry out nuclear war games designed to intimidate it, according to the official KCNA news agency.
It also urged Washington and Seoul to withdraw nuclear weapons stationed in and around South Korea, and refrain from redeploying them, if they want to reopen negotiations with Pyongyang, reported Xinhua.
The statement followed months of tensions on the Korean Peninsula after the UN Security Council imposed fresh sanctions against Pyongyang last month after it conducted a third nuclear test in February.
The US and South Korea have since carried out intensive war games in and around South Korea, including sending B-52 strategic bombers and B-2 stealth bombers to South.
North Korea’s National Defense Commission urged the US and South Korea to stop provocations, fully apologise for their aggressions, and give assurances not to carry out nuclear war games designed to intimidate it, according to the official KCNA news agency.
It also urged Washington and Seoul to withdraw nuclear weapons stationed in and around South Korea, and refrain from redeploying them, if they want to reopen negotiations with Pyongyang, reported Xinhua.
The statement followed months of tensions on the Korean Peninsula after the UN Security Council imposed fresh sanctions against Pyongyang last month after it conducted a third nuclear test in February.
The US and South Korea have since carried out intensive war games in and around South Korea, including sending B-52 strategic bombers and B-2 stealth bombers to South.
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