North Korea send his top nuclear envoy to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss restarting nuclear disarmament meeting, a day after pledging Pyongyang's commitment to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
Kim made the disarmament assurance during a summit Monday with a high-level envoy from Beijing at the start of a week of diplomacy intended to get the six-nation nuclear talks back on track. A high-level U.N. envoy also flew to Pyongyang on Tuesday for a four-day trip.
North Korea walked away from the talks last year during a confrontation over its nuclear and missile programs. The disarmament progression includes the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States.
However, has been reaching out to Washington, Seoul and Beijing in recent months, and has taken unsure steps toward discussing how to get the progression going again.
North Korea has made clear it wants U.N. sanctions lifted and a serenity treaty with Washington officially ending the 1950-1953 Korean War before it returns to the disarmament meeting. Pyongyang cites the U.S. military existence in South Korea as its main reason for building up its nuclear weapons program.
Washington says Pyongyang must come back to the talks first before any conversation about political and economic concessions.
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