S Korea offers ‘flexible’ plan

North Korea and the United States disagreed on Monday, the opening day of six-way working talks over how to end Pyongyang’s nuclear pro...

North Korea and the United States disagreed on Monday, the opening day of six-way working talks over how to end Pyongyang’s nuclear programmes while South Korea offered aid to the struggling North in return for progress.

Seoul would be more flexible in the talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis and was ready to provide a security guarantee in return for nuclear dismantlement, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said.

North and South Korea, the US, Japan, Russia and China began two days of working-level talks to lay the foundation for a third round of discussions this week on the crisis.

Pyongyang held out the prospect of a roadmap for freezing its nuclear programme if the US and others said what they would give in return, Yonhap news agency said. The US rejected the offer, saying the Communist state must first come up with a detailed plan for a freeze leading to eventual nuclear dismantlement, it quoted a South Korean official as saying.

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