| Mr Kim merely redoubled his nuclear efforts, exploding a device inside a mountain in October 2006, despite a 2005 agreement to denuclearise. |
| A spokeswoman for Park said the administration recognised that past attempts to denuclearise the North had been unsuccessful. |
| In January this year, Russia, Ukraine and the United States reached a trilateral agreement to denuclearise Ukraine and dismantle nuclear weaponry there. |
| How much room for manoeuvre do you have to strike a deal to denuclearise North Korea? |
| Few among the diplomats from America, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia most closely involved in a five-year, six-party effort to denuclearise the Korean peninsula would wager on it. |
| It is time for the international community to fashion a truly united front to press North Korea to denuclearise. |
