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