North Korea demanded high-level talks with U.S.

► Pyongyang wants to negotiate with the United States "to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula, to ensure peace and security in the region" ...

 North Korea called for high-level talks with the U.S., but did not give any signal that would cut nuclear program to open for dialogue.

According to the Wall Street Journal, only 1 week after withdrawal plan has been pre-negotiated with Seoul, Pyongyang says it wants negotiations with the United States "to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula, to ensure peace and security in the region ".

A spokesman of the National Defense Commission statement Korea, the negotiations with the U.S., if any, which may include issues of bilateral nuclear disarmament, but reiterated Pyongyang's commitment to the build nuclear arsenals of their own.

"Legal status of the DPRK as a state-owned nuclear weapons will continue without any variation whatsoever can be recognized or not," the spokesman said media on the Korean state.

Proposal of Pyongyang talks given at the end of last week. However, until now, Washington does not respond before this move.

Last Friday, the U.S. special envoy on North Korean affairs Glyn Davies said that a diplomatic breakthrough with Pyongyang depends on whether North Korea has made such promises before the program cut Nuclear or not. In the 6 party talks stalemate in 2008, Pyongyang pledged to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

As tensions on the Korean peninsula rise this year, the Korean National Assembly has put into law the development of nuclear weapons is the top policy priorities of this country. Since then, Pyongyang has accelerated the restart of nuclear reactors to produce plutonium for bombs. At the same time, North Korea also is reportedly in the process of enriching uranium for weapons production.

North Korea has announced to strengthen its nuclear arsenal may be effective precautions imminent U.S. attack. Analysts said that Pyongyang's arsenal also see this as a lever to gain assurance about their security, as well as other benefits such as international aid.

Last March, North Korea threatened to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons. However, most experts agreed that the country can not afford to make such threats. Korea is considered some kind of small nuclear bombs, but it is unclear whether enough ability to mount a nuclear device on a missile or not.

So far, China continues to lead the call for the resumption of multilateral negotiations to curb nuclear ambitions of North Korea. After meeting its middle weeks before U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese officials have emphasized putting North Korea back to the negotiating table nuclear disarmament.

U.S. officials have said they will not recognize North Korea's request to be recognized as a nuclear state property and will not return to talks if Pyongyang does not take steps to begin disband its nuclear program.

In May 2/2012, high-level talks between the U.S. and most recently Korea have reached an agreement on the provision of aid to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang ending nuclear testing and uranium enrichment. The deal later collapsed when North Korea launched a long-range missile in 4/2012.

Tensions further escalated late last year after a missile test by North Korea, followed by a nuclear test in February this year. By April, Pyongyang shut down Kaesong industrial park is considered the ultimate symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.

Recently, Korea Korean surprise proposal to reopen negotiations Kaesong and some other South-North project. The talks were scheduled for last week, but eventually collapsed because Pyongyang sent delegations refused citing disagreements over the level of officials leading the talks on each side.