ABC News: NKorea: US Must Alter 'Hostile' Policy

ABC News: NKorea: US Must Alter 'Hostile' Policy: "Eight years later, Pyongyang appears eager to make amends, refraining from its customary New Year's Day diatribe against the U.S. and reportedly offering to send an envoy to Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration.
In the statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, North Korea's Foreign Ministry reiterated its commitment to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. However, it said Washington cannot demand that Pyongyang bare its nuclear arsenal without revealing, and removing, its own alleged nuclear weapons in South Korea.

Seoul and Washington deny having a secret atomic arsenal. 'We don't have nuclear weapons,' South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young said late Tuesday.
But the U.S. military does have some 28,000 troops in the South and holds regular war games with South Korean troops, exercises the North denounces as proof of U.S. aggression.
'We would never show our nuclear weapons first — even in 100 years — unless the U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat to North Korea are terminated,' said the statement, monitored in Seoul."


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