Financial Times FT.com

N Korean leader willing to return to talks

By Anna Fifield in Seoul and Richard McGregor in Beijing

Published: February 22 2005 03:54 | Last updated: February 22 2005 08:44

North Korea suddenly reversed its position on multilateral nuclear talks on Tuesday, offering to discuss its nuclear weapons programmes with the US and its neighbours, if Washington showed “sincerity” and met its “mature conditions”.

The reversal, less than two weeks after Pyongyang captured the world's attention by declaring it had already made nuclear weapons, follows the dispatch of Wang Jiarui, a high-level Chinese envoy, to the North Korean capital.

You have viewed your allowance of free articles. If you wish to view more, click the button below.

Read this