North Korea: We want nuclear-free peninsula

North Korea’s envoy to international disarmament talks said today that his country was ready to work on eliminating atomic weapons from the Korean Peninsula, while the US reassured the communist nation that it had no intention of invading to end the nuclear stand-off.

“The fundamenal thing is to make real progress in realising the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula,” North Korean vice foreign minister Kim Kye Gwan said at the opening session of the revived talks in Beijing.