U.S.-North Korean Relations

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U.S.-North Korean Relations

Northern Korean regime manifested its desire on Wednesday to sign a peace treaty with the United States that would end the Korean War started in 1950s, and would be a first step for settling the Korean issue, including the denuclearization problem.
In a statement at the state-run agency the north Korean regime’s officials reminded that the war ended with an armistice, not with a signed peace.
These statements were made at a time when a diplomatic meeting is to be held between North Korea and the United States, the first one since 2009.
The new round of negotiations is scheduled to start on Thursday, when the first vice foreign minister of North Korea Kim Kye Gwan is to meet the U.S. envoy to North Korea Stephen Bosworth in New York. The two diplomats last met in December 2009.
The meeting comes one year after the North’s army shelled an island belonging to the South Korea, causing the death of a few people and the relocation of more. South Korea is the strategic ally of the United States in the region.
The United States officials called this meeting a preliminary session, in which the United States would lay out its expectations of the six-nation meeting on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Six-nation talk format has been used since 2003, and in 2005 and 2007 the North Koreans agreed to a multiple-step strategy to solve the problem of disarmament of the Communist state.

U.S. Representative for North Korea

Four of the countries involved, the two Koreas, the United States and China, are working on a peace treaty that would formally end the war.
So far, the steps taken were putting the disarming before the peace treaty, but now the Communist country wants the treaty to come first.
In the statement on Wednesday the North Korean authorities said that it was impossible for the two countries to achieve any peace while there are still hostilities between the two countries.
Experts consider that Pyongyang have ulterior motives for this peace treaty, the first of them being to relieve pressure of Kim Jong-il’s regime, and to convince the United States to withdraw the troops it has stationed in South Korea.
At the same time, North Korea wants her status of nuclear power to be acknowledged. As for the denuclearization, it proposes that the U.S. dismantle its own nuclear arsenal at the same time with the Communist state.

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