S. Korea keeps pressure on N. Korea to accept conditions for 6-party talks

North Korea must demonstrate its true intention to keep its promise to denuclearize when it meets with the United States next week, before a resumption of the stalled six-nation nuclear talks can take place, South Korea's foreign minister said Friday. North Korean and U.S. officials will meet on Monday and Tuesday in Geneva to see whether Pyongyang is amenable to taking specific actions, including a freeze and international inspection of its uranium enrichment facility, before resuming the six-party talks. "Seoul and Washington will keep urging North Korea to demonstrate through specific actions that it truly intends to abandon its nuclear program," Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan told a security forum in Seoul. "Many years of experience with North Korea tell us that it is imperative to set the right conditions before resuming negotiations," Kim said. "On this point, there is no daylight between Seoul and Washington." The six-party talks, involving the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan, have been at a standstill since April 2009 when the North quit the negotiating table and conducted its second nuclear test a month later. But it has since repeatedly expressed its willingness to return to the aid-for-disarmament talks without any preconditions.