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North Korea came silently US officials through the United Nations in New York last fall to propose formal peace talks to end the Korean War, a response to the comments from President Barack Obama that the US .S. he was willing to participate Pyongyang, as it has with other rogue regimes, senior US officials told CNN.
That effort fell short, officials said, with the North Koreans refuse to include its nuclear program in any negotiations as the US necessary and shortly after testing a nuclear weapon.
But it represented a new stage in the Obama administration as it tried to attract the hermetic country from its isolation and extend its record of successful negotiations with the nations long at odds with the United States, such as Iran and Cuba.
The USA. They said North Korea was willing to discuss a peace officer to replace the armistice 63 years old, which ended hostilities after the Korean War, but only if efforts to curb Pyongyang's nuclear program were part discussions.
Thus, the administration dropped a longstanding demand that North Korea take steps toward "denuclearization" before talks on a formal peace treaty began. Still, the North Koreans refused to allow the nuclear issue be part of any conversation.
"It's a touch-up conditions," said Bruce Klingner, a member of the Heritage Foundation and former deputy division chief of the CIA in South Korea, describing the motion of the administration.
"Instead of requiring progress on denuclearization before negotiations, it appears that the administration according to the idea of peace talks but denuclearization talks required to be included," Klingner said.
The Wall Street Journal first reported in diplomatic exchanges, but the Obama discusses his description of events, saying it was North Korea, which first proposed the talks instead of the United States, which keeps its focus on rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons.
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