DPRK unlikely to be swayed by US crisis plan

BEIJING: North Korea is unlikely to accept a US offer of conditional aid and security guarantees to end the 20-month-old nuclear crisis because the terms are too tough and contain too few sweeteners, analysts said on Thursday. But the communist North would be keen to keep the six-party dialogue going to prevent the issue of its nuclear programmes from being taken to the UN Security Council, they said. The United States has reportedly considered bringing the problem before the United Nations if Pyongyang does not signal it is willing to abandon the arms programmes. “In the eyes of the North Koreans, the compensation offered in the US proposal is so small,” said Hajime Izumi, a Korea expert at Shizuoka Prefectural University near Tokyo. reuters

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