Daily News in English About Korea

Last November, U.S. President George W. Bush suddenly said he was willing to consider declaring the end of the Korean War if Pyongyang dismantles its nuclear program. Since then, the American strategy toward North Korea has been changing quietly but surely. The U.S. seems to have decided to conduct direct talks with North Korea on building a peace framework, the key security issue on the peninsula, if only the North Korean nuclear weapons are dismantled. Not so long ago, Washington was saying any peace treaty with North Korea -- the issue the Roh Moo-hyun administration had urged it to settle ? can only come after North Korea��s nuclear program is entirely gone.