North Korea says peace treaty, halt to exercises, would end nuclear tests

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:01am EST

North Korea says peace treaty, halt to exercises, would end nuclear tests

SEOUL/TOKYO

North Korea on Saturday demanded the conclusion of a peace treaty with the United States and a halt to U.S. military exercises with South Korea to end its nuclear tests.

But U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Pyongyang needed to demonstrate by its action that it was serious about denuclearization for any dialogues to start.

"We now have unfortunately a decade during which North Korea has totally reversed its obligations to international community, when it comes to missile and nuclear programs," Blinken told a news conference in Tokyo.

"So it's very hard to take any of their overtures very seriously, particularly in the wake of their fourth nuclear test," he said, after meeting his counterpart from Japan and South Korea.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-nuclear-usa-idUSKCN0UT201

[tombennett91]

1. Obama

Promising but I doubt the Obama administration will be able to act on this with less then a year left in office. In Bernie we trust.