North Korea rocks nuclear deal
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-20 21:30

The six countries, also including Russia, had agreed on Monday to a set of principles on winding up Pyongyang's nuclear programs in return for aid and recognition of its right to a civilian nuclear program. The six agreed to discuss providing a light-water reactor "at an appropriate time."

Analysts noted that the North had backtracked on seemingly rock-solid positions before, and so the deal was not yet dead.

"They've chosen the appropriate time to discuss it as now," said Peter Hayes, a North Korea expert at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. "I think what they're doing is negotiating. They're putting out a maximal position."

The North's Foreign Ministry statement could be mostly aimed at its own people, said Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Waseda University in Tokyo and an expert on North Korea.

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