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The U.S. government could form a working-level team that would discuss a permanent peace treaty with North Korea to replace the armistice that halted the Korean War, Japan¡¯s Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
The paper quoted a high-ranking U.S. official as saying Washington had drawn up a blueprint for the next round of six-party talks on North Korea¡¯s nuclear program that identifies three areas of discussion: the nuclear program, a peace mechanism, and economic support. The paper said the peace treaty would be dealt with at the working level.
¡°Despite adopting a joint statement in the last round of six-party talks where North Korea pledged to dismantle its nuclear program, no concrete steps have been taken to implement that agreement,¡± the paper said. The working-level talks were therefore aimed at clearing up the ambiguously worded parts. The Yomiuri said Washington wanted Tokyo, which was not a party to the Korean War, to become more actively involved in discussions on the peace framework, but Seoul strongly opposed this.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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