| A new round of the on-again, off-again talks | | | | exchange for aid and security guarantees. |
| aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its | | | | But that was before the North tested a nuclear |
| nuclear weapons program has begun in Beijing | | | | device last October, and Pyongyang now says it |
| after a 13-month hiatus. Roger Wilkison reports | | | | wants to be considered a nuclear power. |
| from Beijing that China, Russia, Japan, South | | | | U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill says the |
| Korea and the United States are trying to | | | | international community will not accept North |
| determine whether North Korea really is prepared | | | | Korea as a nuclear state. "If they want a future |
| to negotiate following its nuclear test in October. | | | | with us, if they want to work with us, if they |
| The purpose of these talks is to get North Korea | | | | want to be a member of the international |
| to implement a written pledge it made in | | | | community, they are going to have to get out of |
| September 2005 to abandon nuclear weapons in | | | | this nuclear business. |