SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, which escaped U.N. censure over the sinking of a South Korean warship, is signalling it wants to restart nuclear weapons negotiations. For the United States and South Korea, the talks are fraught with risk.
Washington is well aware of the political mileage it gives the hermit state by sitting at the same negotiating table. The question is how to avoid simply letting Pyongyang go through the motions only to later renege, again, on promises to roll back its nuclear arms programme.
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