South Korea told its communist neighbour yesterday that it must do more than say it has no plans to develop atomic arms if it was to end the crisis on the peninsula.

North Korea today said it has no intention of making nuclear weapons and repeated Pyongyang’s position that the stand-off can be resolved through dialogue with the US, officials said.

THE chief North Korean delegate to talks with South Korea hinted yesterday he was unwilling to discuss his country’s suspected nuclear weapons

North Korea is willing to talk about concerns over its nuclear weapons programme, South Korean officials said today.

Inter-Korean talks began in sombre mood today, with South Korea demanding that North Korea should scrap its nuclear weapons programme.

Draped with flags, the coffins of four South Korean sailors killed in a sea battle with North Korea were carried past weeping relatives and servicemen at a funeral service in Seoul today.