SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's No. 2 leader pledged his country's commitment Thursday to giving up its nuclear program in talks with a visiting high-level South Korean delegation, amid intensifying diplomacy aimed at implementing Pyongyang's pledge to disarm.
"The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the dying wish" of the country's late founding president Kim Il Sung, Kim Yong Nam said in Pyongyang. The North "will make efforts to realize it," he said.
At the meeting, South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung pressed the North to implement a February 13 pledge made with the U.S. and four other countries to take initial steps to disarm. - CNN ******** Boy, some people take the fun out of being president. Oh, well, there's still hope for Iran, and we already have people in the region.
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