U.S. Should End North Korea Sanctions to Ease Nuclear Standoff, Nobel Laureates Say

A group of Nobel Peace Prize winners Saturday urged the Bush administration to lift financial sanctions on North Korea to help resolve the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, Reuters reported (see GSN, June 16).

The group, which included former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and senior Amnesty International officials, said North Korea should resume multilateral nuclear talks, and “completely abandon its nuclear weapons policy and accept international inspectors.”

“We also call for the U.S. to end financial and economic sanctions on the D.P.R.K. and offer security guarantees,” the group said in a statement (Reuters/Yahoo!News, June 17).

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