North Korea ready to compromise with US
Pyongyang: North Korea's top nuclear negotiator told US envoys yesterday his government would invite UN nuclear inspectors into the country the moment $25 million (Dh91.7 million) in disputed North Korean funds are released.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan met with Bill Richardson, a Democratic US presidential candidate, and Anthony Principi, US President George W. Bush's former veteran affairs secretary, who were visiting the capital Pyongyang.
Kim "indicated that the North Korean government would invite the inspectors back the moment the funds are released to the North Korean government," Principi told reporters after the meeting.
Kim also told the US delegation it would be difficult to shut down the country's main nuclear reactor by this Saturday, the deadline called for in a February nuclear disarmament accord.
"They can make a beginning, but whether they can completely shut down a nuclear reactor in such a short time would be very difficult,"Principi said.
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