North Korea ponders new US offer

THE United States offered to remove North Korea from Washington’s list of states sponsoring terrorism if the communist regime dismantles its atomic weapons programme, South Korea’s nuclear envoy said yesterday.

The proposal was just one of the incentives the US spelled out last week at six-nation nuclear disarmament talks with the North, along with offers of security guarantees, a peace treaty and normalisation of relations, Chun Yung-woo said.

“Everything is possible if North Korea denuclearises and nothing is possible if it refuses,” Chun said.