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U.S. Offer to North Korea Detailed
The United States offered to remove North Korea from its list of terrorist states as part of a package of nuclear-freeze incentives offered during last month’s six-party talks in Beijing, the Korea Times reported (see GSN, July 12). The “five corresponding measures” in the U.S. proposal included: supplying heavy fuel oil; issuing a provisional security guarantee; providing longer-term energy aid; holding direct talks about the lifting of economic sanctions and removing North Korea from the U.S. list of terrorist states; and retraining North Korean nuclear scientists during a three-month “preparatory period” of dismantlement, according to a press release posted yesterday on the South Korean Foreign Ministry’s official Web site. The United States also said it would give a “permanent” guarantee not to invade North Korea or seek “regime change” if Pyongyang froze its nuclear programs on the way toward complete denuclearization, the Times reported. An outline of the incentives, based on a South Korean proposal, was released during the Beijing talks. However, this is the first time any of the countries involved in the talks officially confirmed the details of the proposal, according to the Times (Ryu Jin, Korea Times, July 13).
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