N Korea offered sweetener to scrap nuclear programmes

South Korea’s offer to compensate North Korea if it gives up its nuclear programmes was on the table today as six-country talks reconvened and the United States continued its push for a verifiable end to the North’s ambitions of becoming a nuclear power.

Delegates in Beijing entered the second day of negotiations emphasising that any conclusions were premature. “It’s just getting started,” Japan’s delegate, foreign ministry director General Mitoji Yabunaka, said, before the talks reconvened.