State media: high-level talks with North Korea, the United States proposed

SEOUL: North Korea to discuss nuclear weapons program and reduce tensions on the peninsula with the United States has proposed high-level talks, state media said Sunday.

said in a statement.

North "nuclear weapon-free world, the U.S. goal of achieving a wide range of problems, including serious talks" to it is ready to set the time and place for the talks, the United States has emphasized.


"Peace and stability in the region, including the U.S. mainland genuinely interested in ensuring that the U.S. preconditions for talks should not," he said.

Nuclear-armed communist state committed to the denuclearize of the peninsula, but the U.S. military and nuclear threats against is called "self-protection" as was defended its nuclear weapons.

have.

"The situation will now have the choice depends on how responsible," he said.

Stress triggered new United Nations sanctions after Pyongyang Seoul and Washington by angry threats, including nuclear attacks drew the third nuclear test by North Korea in February on the peninsula is high.

An unusual high-level meeting between the two Korea's - temporarily to talk about stress reduction schedule for June 12 and 13 - because of spats over protocol was canceled on Tuesday.