TOKYO: North Korea would agree to abandon its nuclear arms programme if the United States reaffirmed the contents of a 2000 joint statement in which the two sides declared that they had “no hostile intention” towards each other, diplomatic sources with close ties to Pyongyang said yesterday.
The possible way out of a standoff over North Korea’s nuclear arms programme comes one day after Washington offered dialogue with the reclusive communist state, but refused to offer Pyongyang incentives for scrapping its atomic ambitions.
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