N Korea: arms pact is a ‘dead document’

NORTH KOREA yesterday said a 1992 pact intended to keep the divided Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons was a “dead document.”

As South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun visited the United States, a long report carried on the communist North’s official KCNA news agency, accused Washington of scuppering the pact. It claimed the US undermined the 1992 North-South Korea nuclear declaration.

Roh meets President Bush today to discuss a US standoff with the North over its nuclear intentions before possible follow-up talks between Washington and Pyongyang.