North Korea is calling for a peace treaty with the United States

North Korea is calling for a peace treaty with the United States as one of its senior diplomats visits New York to try to restart six-nation nuclear disarmament talks.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday that a peace treaty officially ending the Korean War could go a long way toward resolving a deadlock over Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Wednesday is the 58th anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. North Korea and China had been fighting against South Korea, the United States and U.N. forces.

Pyongyang has long called for a peace treaty with Washington. But its latest push comes as Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan is in New York.

Source AP