N. Korea Offers to Halt Nuke Facilities


Jan 6, 12:52 AM (ET)

By SOO-JEONG LEE


SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea offered Tuesday to refrain from
producing nuclear weapons as a "bold concession" to rekindle talks over its
arms programs.

The move comes as the United States, China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas
scramble to arrange a new round of negotiations, with South Korea and
Russian saying they are unlikely this month.

North Korea has said before it is willing to freeze its "nuclear activities"
in exchange for U.S. aid and being delisted from Washington's roster of
terrorism sponsoring nations.

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Iraq by force...Libya and N. Korea by diplomatic pressure. Which just
leaves Syria on our short list of rogue nations pursuing WMD's. Of course,
Syria's problem is that they're hiding Saddam's WMD's...and turning them
over would mean that Bush was right. Syria is certainly in a pickle.