MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - North Korea and the United States are at the point of finding a solution to their bilateral problems similar to the one found by China and the U.S. back in the 1970s, a Russian political expert said, commenting on the six-nation talks on the Korean nuclear problem resuming in Beijing tomorrow.
"This formula can be applied to Korea as well," Mikhail Titarenko, director of the Institute of Far East Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said.
He said that before their relations improved, the U.S. opened a liaison office (a diplomatic mission) in Beijing, which was coincidentally headed by would-be president George Bush Sr.
"Relations between the U.S. and North Korea are moving in the same direction because [both countries] are interested in reducing tensions and reaching a compromise," Titarenko said.
According to the expert, a compromise would be possible if North Korea stopped its development of nuclear weapons, and if the U.S. promised to offer economic support and eased the embargo.
