Carter Leaves North Korea With Message on Nuclear Talks Friday, Aug. 27, 2010

The second in charge of North Korea told visiting ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter that the regime was resolved to seeing the Korean Peninsula stripped of nuclear weapons and to rejoining the moribund six-nation talks, Reuters reported today

"Kim Yong Nam expressed the will of the D.P.R.K. government for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the resumption of the six-party talks," the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency said.

Pyongyang abandoned the nuclear talks in April 2009 in the wake of another round of U.N. Security Council sanctions. It subsequently conducted its second nuclear test and announced it was rolling back denuclearization measures undertaken during the years-long six-nation process.
The U.S. State Department indicated yesterday the Obama administration was likely to wait until next month's U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York to directly discuss relaunching the negotiations with the other participating states -- China, Japan, the two Koreas and Russia, Agence France-Presse reported More at: .http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/nw_20100827_9331.php