Washington's special representative to North Korea has arrived in the South Korean capital ahead of talks in Pyongyang. The envoy will try to bring the Kim Jong Il government back to six-nation talks on giving up its nuclear weapons, which North Korea abandoned. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth met Monday with South Korea's six-party talks negotiator Wi Sung-lac ahead of his trip to North Korea on Tuesday. In Pyongyang, Bosworth will try to persuade North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament talks with South Korea, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia. North Korea said earlier this year it would never to return to those negotiations. However, the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, reportedly told China's premier in October that depending on how talks with Bosworth go, he might reconsider. There is concern in Seoul that Pyongyang's insistence on holding bilateral talks with Washington could drive a wedge between the U.S. and South Korea. But some foreign policy analysts say there is little to fear. LhoKyungsoo lectures in international politics at Seoul National University. "I don't think there is any worry Ambassador Bosworth's visit to North Korea will somehow detract from our efforts," Lho said. "Whoever makes steps forward with North Korea is not as important as making a difference with North Korea. And I don't think our interests are any different from the American ones in terms of North Korea." After walking away from the six-party talks, North Korea tested its second nuclear device. The United Nations Security Council later imposed sanctions on Pyongyang, which have impeded its efforts to sell conventional weapons abroad, a major source of income for the cash-strapped nation. Since then, North Korea has cooled its hostile rhetoric and offered to engage with the United States and South Korea. Some foreign policy experts in South Korea think the sanctions have forced Pyongyang to consider coming back to the negotiating table. Choi Kang is director of American studies at the Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security in South Korea. "North Korea changed their behavior and words from mid-July, that's the point U.N. Security Council resolution 1874, to be implemented," Choi said. "Since then they actually launched a charm offensive to the outside, a peace offensive, I think they felt some pain coming from the implementation of the U.N. Security Council resolution." North Korea has indicated that it will not return to the six-party talks until the U.S. signs a peace agreement to officially end the Korean War. Fighting ended in 1953 with only a cease-fire agreement.
Washington says that Bosworth will not engage in peace talks during this visit.
在平壤举行会谈，在韩国首都华盛顿的特别代表已经抵达朝鲜。特使将试图使金正日政府就放弃，其中朝鲜放弃其核武器的六方会谈。
博斯沃思大使会见了韩国的六方会谈谈判代表无线宋湖提前出访朝鲜周一周二。 博斯沃思将在平壤，试图说服朝鲜返回韩国，美国，中国，日本和俄罗斯的核裁军谈判。 朝鲜今年早些时候表示，它将永远不会返回到这些谈判。然而，据报道该国领导人金正日，10月告诉记者，在中国首屈一指的，这取决于如何与博斯沃思举行会谈，他可能会重新考
虑。
关注是在汉城，平壤的坚持与华盛顿举行的双边会谈能够推动美国和韩国之间的一个楔子。但一些外交政策分析家说，有一点担心。
LHO Kyungsoo讲座在汉城国立大学国际政治中的。
“我不认为有任何担心大使博斯沃思访问朝鲜将以某种方式削弱我们的努力，”LHO说。“谁使步骤与朝鲜，与朝鲜的区别的重要，而我不认为我们的利益，美国在朝鲜方面的任何不同。”
步行六方会谈后，朝鲜试射了第二个核装置。后来联合国安理会对平壤的制裁，阻碍努力到国外出售常规武器的主要来源，收入囊中羞涩的国家。自那时以来，朝鲜已经冷却的敌对言论，并提供从事与美国和韩国。
在韩国的一些外交政策专家认为，平壤的制裁，迫使考虑未来回到谈判桌前。
蔡康是美国的研究在韩国的外交和国家安全研究所主任。
“崔说，”朝鲜的联合国安理会第1874号决议，要实现这一点从7月中旬，改变他们的行为和言语。“从那时起，他们发动魅力攻势外，和平攻势，我认为他们觉得有些疼痛，来自联合国安理会决议的执行情况的。”
朝鲜已表示，它不会重返六方会谈，直到美国签署一项和平协议，以正式结束朝鲜战争。战斗结束在19xx年只有一个停火协议。
华盛顿说，博斯沃思将不会在这次访问期间进行和谈。