North Korea has asked the U.S. for a peace treaty that would finally put an end to the truce that has existed for for more than 50 years. NK says that it would speed the 6 party negotiations over their nuclear program. They also say they will resume the talks if the UN Security Council lift international sanctions imposed last year.

One has to wonder what would prompt the 'Dear Leader' to put forward this peace initiative after months of threats, missile tests and posturing. One wonders if someone or several someones, inside the NK government, have grown a pair and are holding a figurative or actual gun to his head.

If they're actually willing to bargin, perhaps we should hold out for the condition of the North Koreans agreeing to broadcast the NK World Cup team's matches this year.

Just in, the U.S. and S. Korea both say that N. Korea must first rejoin the 6 party negotiations before they are willing to move forward with peace treaty talks.

Further, S. Korea's Defense Chief says S. Korea is ready to defend against any N. Korean aggression.

"On Tuesday, South Korea's defence chief said he believes peace treaty talks can take place only after the nuclear talks are resumed and the North takes steps toward disarming its atomic programmes. "I think it's an issue that we can probably move forward with after the six-party talks are reopened and there is progress in North Korea's denuclearisation process," Defence Minister Kim Tae-young told reporters.He said South Korea will continue to try to find what the North's true intention is behind its peace talks proposal.
But Kim said his military is ready to deter any possible North Korean aggression, saying the North "many times in the past offered peace gestures with one hand while on the other committed provocations."


It appears that 50+ years of N. Korean aggression and refusal to talk true peace have lead to an understandable mistrust of a sudden change of heart on the North's part.


The Press Association: North Korea's peace talks rejected