Funny that. Once the US stopped calling the DPRK c***s*ck*rs, and stopped calling for regime change, and stopped reneging on deals, they are willing to talk.

These people really do believe that the US is planning to take over the country, and doing things like cutting an agreement one day, and reneging on it the next, as with the frozen money, only reinforces this paranoia.

Go figure.

NKorea’s Kim indicates it will disarm nuclear weapons

BEIJING (AFP): North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il indicated on Tuesday that he was ready to begin dismantling his country’s nuclear weapons, China’s official news agency reported.

In rare conciliatory remarks the leader of the communist state raised hopes that a stalled nuclear pact will finally be realised.

“Recently some signs of easing on the Korean peninsula have appeared,” Kim was quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying.

“All sides should implement the initial actions (of a six-nation pact on eradicating North Korea’s nuclear capabilities)”, he said.

The comments, made during a meeting with visiting Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi, will strengthen hopes that the North will disarm.

Under the agreement struck in February, Pyongyang pledged to scrap its nuclear programmes in exchange for energy aid and various diplomatic incentives.

But implementation has been stalled by a financial dispute over millions of dollars of North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank due to US sanctions.

That obstacle was removed last week when the last of the funds were returned to Pyongyang.

In another hopeful sign, diplomatic sources in Berlin said on Tuesday that North Korea has agreed to broad cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog to close its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, the first step in the deal.

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