| [Kyodo: Korea] A North Korean official reiterated Monday that Pyongyang will return to the six-party talks on ending its nuclear ambitions if the country wins results from bilateral talks with the United States, according to a diplomatic source. The results would be ""Washington"s withdrawal of a hostile policy against the North"" and ""removal of the U.S. nuclear threat"" from the Korean Peninsula, the source quoted Ri Kwang Il, a deputy director at the Disarmament and Peace Institute, a Foreign Ministry think tank, as saying at an academic conference in Beijing. |