Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the United States wants to resume six-country disarmament talks with North Korea and urged the world to not “give in” to Pyongyang's “unpredictable behavior.” “We are prepared to resume the six-party talks,” Clinton told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, adding that North Korea had not shown any willingness to resume those stalled discussions on its nuclear-weapons program. Pyongyang announced this month it would boycott the six-country disarmament negotiations after the U.N. Security Council tightened existing sanctions on North Korea to punish Pyongyang for its April 5 launch of a long-range missile. North Korea also said it would restart a plutonium facility and threatened war with South Korea if it joined a U.S. initiative to half the proliferation of illegal weapons. Clinton said the world must remain united against North Korea. “We have to be strong, patient, and consistent and not give in to … the unpredictable behavior of the North Korean regime,” she said.
