North Korea wanted to end Korean war but backed out –U.S says

A senior U.S. officials has said that days after President Barrack Obama made comments that the U.S. was will to engage Pyongyang like it has engaged other rogue regimes, North Korea quietly reached out to U.S. officials through the United Nations last October to propose formal peace talks to end the war in Korea but they later backed out.

The U.S. told North Korea it was willing to discuss a formal peace to replace the 63-year-old armistice that ended hostilities after the Korean War, but only if efforts to curb Pyongyang’s nuclear program were part of the discussions.

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But the effort by North Korea according to the senior U.S. official failed because Pyongyang refused to include nuclear program in any negotiation as required by the U.S. and soon after the interface, the East Asian country carried out an H-bomb test.

The effort represented a new step by the Obama administration as it attempted to extend its track record of successful negotiations with nations long at odds with the United States, such as Iran and Cuba but failed to redeem North Korea out of its isolation.

 
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