North Korea suggests peace treaty to settle nuclear dispute

[ze_dscherman]

WASHINGTON — North Korea said Wednesday that the best way to resolve its nuclear standoff with the United States would be to replace a 51-year-old armistice with a peace treaty ending the Korean War, to be signed by North Korea, South Korea and the United States.

The comment, in a rare interview with Han Song Ryol, North Korea's deputy representative to the United Nations, appeared to reflect North Korea's growing frustration with slow-moving six-nation nuclear disarmament talks in Beijing. Labeled by President Bush as part of an "axis of evil" with Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the North Korean government says a peace treaty would be a deterrent to an attack by the United States.

The Bush administration says it might talk about a peace treaty but only after North Korea agrees to the United States' long-standing demand for "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" of its nuclear program.


More: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-05-12-nkorea-treaty-usat_x.htm

[JaySherman]

1. Peace treaty? We don't need no stinkin' peace treaty!

Kim forgets who he's dealing with. The Shrub & Co. are even crazier than he is.