US team in N Korea gets ‘bold offer’

A US delegation flew to North Korea on Tuesday, hoping to visit a nuclear complex at the heart of the country’s atomic arms programme, ...

A US delegation flew to North Korea on Tuesday, hoping to visit a nuclear complex at the heart of the country’s atomic arms programme, as Pyongyang pitched what it called a ‘‘bold concession’’ to restart talks.

A trip to the Yongbyon nuclear complex by the US delegation would mark the first time outsiders had been allowed into the plant since UN inspectors were expelled a year ago.

With prospects for talks in January appearing to recede, North Korea called on the US to accept an offer to freeze its nuclear arms programme, saying Pyongyang would throw in the ‘‘bold concession’’ of suspending nuclear power generation.

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But a commentary by Pyongyang’s official KCNA news agency on Tuesday said US policy — which demands the irreversible dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear programme rather than a freeze — ‘‘will destroy the foundation of the dialogue and cast a dark shadow’’ over hopes to resume six-party nuclear talks. KCNA reiterated a proposal that N Korea first issued on December 9, calling it ‘‘the starting point and the core issue in continuing the six-way talks’’.

‘‘The DPRK is set to refrain from test and production of nuclear arms and stop operating nuclear power industry for a peaceful purpose as first-phase measures of the package solution,’’ said KCNA. —(Reuters)

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