After shunning negotiations over its nuclear programme for more than a year, North Korea has finally begun talking again. But in return for scrapping its own projects, it is now asking the Americans for nuclear concessions. As a country that has declared itself a nuclear power, North Korea wants to be treated like one. At the six-party talks including China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, which began in Beijing on July 26th, North Korea's delegate, Kim Kye-gwan, at least confirmed that his country's aim was the "denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula. But he refused to accept America's version of what nuclear projects are under way in the North. America says they include the making of highly enriched uranium, which can be turned into nuclear weapons. North Korea admits only to a plutonium-based bomb-making project.
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