북한 핵실험 중지 발표... 비핵화 '진정성'에 의견 엇갈려 PART 2<br /><br /> How is this being received by the international community though. <br />Certainly hopes are high this is a sign of Pyongyang showing sincerity towards the summits.<br />But then we know how unconventional and unpredictable the hermit kingdom has been. <br /><br /> Well, I'd definitely have to say that views are starkly divided.<br />But some do think that the North has vowed to take some of the more specific steps that Washington would like to see in the process of denuclearization.<br /> And this move came without any predetermined reward -- unlike in 2008 when Pyongyang destroyed a cooling tower for a nuclear reactor in Yongbyon... in return for the U.S. removing North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.<br />The North also attached no conditions to the moratorium on tests,... unlike in early March... when the North said it wouldn't carry out provocations (quote) "so long as talks continue."<br />The South Korean government views this as a meaningful progress towards denuclearization since it was the North's voluntary decision to halt tests and dismantle the test site.<br />
