N.Korea brings laundry list of demands to talks
North Korea set out sweeping demands on Monday for scrapping its nuclear arms and the United States warned that its patience was running out — an inauspicious start to six-party talks after a year-long hiatus. Addressing the six-party forum at the first talks since the North’s October 9 nuclear test, Pyongyang’s chief envoy demanded an end to U.N. sanctions and U.S. financial curbs and the grant of a nuclear reactor before it would consider disarmament. Full Story