North Korea says it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing
a peace treaty with the U.S. and a stop to annual military exercises
between the U.S. and South Korea.
The North's statement is a
repeat of past offers that have been rejected by the U.S., which wants
Pyongyang to commit to a complete abandonment of nuclear weapons.
The
state media late Friday carried the statement by an unnamed spokesman
of the North's Foreign Ministry, who called the purported hydrogen bomb
test on Jan. 6 a justifiable move to ensure its survival against
external threats.
The North's H-bomb claims have been met with
condemnation and suspicion. The Korean Peninsula remains technically at
war because the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice.
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