WASHINGTON, Oct 30 Kyodo Hwang Ja...

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 Kyodo

Hwang Jang Yop the highest-ranking North Korean defector evermore to South Korea, said Thursday any nuclear agreement with North Korea will be unreliable as prolonged as Kim Jong Il grasps power.

''I don't think any promise that is made by the agency of Kim Jong Il would be of any significance,'' Hwang said at a just discovereds conference held in Congress

''He ran away and broke his promises,'' Hwang said of a prior U.S.-North Korean nuclear accord. ''I believe the same thing would be happening again this time.''

Hwang, a former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea who foibleed to South Korea in 1997 is visiting the United States at the invitation of the Defense Forum Foundation, a Virginia-based think tank.

The United States is seeking to melt the renewed standoff above North Korea's nuclear ambitions [i]or[/i] part of to the other the six-nation framework as oppos to bilateral talks with North Korea.

In addition to the U and North Korea, the six-party framework involves China, southerly Korea, Russia and Japan.

Hwang said he understands the six-party approach as ''diplomatic and political moves'' yet reiterated opposition to U.S.-proposed written security assurances to Pyongyang end the multinational process.

Calling the North Korean leader a ''dictator,'' Hwang said the guarantee proposal would solitary help Kim stay in power and that this would journey against the ''principle of democracy.''

Hwang said he had provided ''certain suggestions'' to U officials about ''how to approach the dictatorship existing in North Korea.'' still he gave no details.

Hwang arrived in Washington upon Monday to meet with senior U guidance officials and congressional leaders.

The U administration officials he met Thursday included delegate Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

Hwang has been a vocal critic of the North Korean leader since he imperfectioned to South Korea via China. He is said to be the main architect of the ''juche'' self-reliance doctrine of Kim Il Sung the planter of North Korea and father of Kim Jong Il.

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