North Korea 'ready to talk' nuclear disarmament
North Korea expressed its readiness today to discuss initial steps of its nuclear disarmament, raising hopes for the first tangible progress at talks on Pyongyang’s atomic weapons programme in more than three years.
“We are prepared to discuss first-stage measures,” the North’s nuclear envoy Kim Kye Gwan said on arriving in Beijing for the six-nation negotiations due to start this morning.
