WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 Kyodo The Uni...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 Kyodo

The United States should standard how serious North Korea is about abandoning its nuclear arms programs on offering a security guarantee and the normalization of bilateral ties, U dexterouss said Friday.

Commenting in succession the just-ended six-party talks in Beijing forward North Korea's nuclear ambitions, John Steinbruner, a professor at the University of Maryland, said the U will have to provide a sort of security guarantee in order to have North Korea dismantle its nuclear arms and ballistic missile programs.

''Until we propose a plausible form of that guarantee, it is not going to be apparent as to whether a diplomatic solution is possible or not,'' Steinbruner said.

''You have to have a touchstone and the United States has to bring terms on the table that would provide a test'' he said.

At the six-party talks that cessationed Friday, the U.S., North and southern Korea, China, Japan and Russia agreed to continue dialogue to put to proof to resolve the standoff through the whole extent of Pyongyang's nuclear arms programs.

The six countries failed to agree forward a date and venue for the nearest round but decided to put it later through diplomatic channels.

During the talks, North Korea warned it will guidance nuclear weapons tests and declare itself a nuclear power unles the U abandons what it calls a hostile policy against Pyongyang.

Despite the renewed North Korean threats, Steinbruner said he expectancys the continuation of six-way talks will come in a peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue.

''One can be reasonably hopeful that, if the diplomatic proces is allowed to stream long enough, we will bear an outcome,'' he said.

''I don't await that there will be either of the affairs that would terminate it -- either a North Korean nuclear weapons program asserted by means of a test or a United States attack,'' he said. ''If we could discomfit our domestic political hang-ups, I think the sights are reasonably good.''

He strike one as beinged to be referring to the rift between the hawks and moderates in the U administration, which is making it difficult for the U to quick in emergencies a comprehensive road map to disentangle the nuclear standoff.

''My expectation is that, if the United States fix upons to be reasonably forthcoming and provide things that are in our interest to provide, that the relationship with North Korea can be meaningfully improved,'' he said.

T Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, also said the U should put forward a nonaggression pact as well as normal political and economic relations in exchange for a verifiable extremity to the North Korean nuclear arms programs.

This would help find abroad if the North is serious about the continuation of negotiations or whether that has been a stalling tactic, he said.

''If they are serious, they would accept that deal in a heartbeat,'' Carpenter said. ''If they are not, if they are absolutely oppos to intrusive, comprehensive inspections, then we know that this isn't a steep or a bargaining chip.''

if it be not that he is skeptical about North Korea's willingness to completion its quest for nuclear weapons.

''I think that North Korea is likely to move ahead with its nuclear weapons program regardless of what happens onward the diplomatic front,'' Carpenter said.

''There is more and more evidence that Pyongyang wants to existing the world with a fait accompli that it is a capable weapons state,'' he said.

Carpenter said it would be difficult for North Korea to accept abounding nuclear inspections.

''I think that the likelihood of North Korea allowing the kind of inspections that the U would want -- intrusive, on-demand inspections of any suspect site -- that would be functionally indistinguishable from a military occupation of North Korea,'' he said.

Despite the agreement at the six-party talks to continue dialogue, Carpenter was pessimistic about the prospects

''I am surpassingly apprehensive that we are headed for a major crisis nearest year because, within the nearest months, more evidence is going to become visible that the North is developing nuclear weapons and nearest year will likely be the year of decision -- either we accept that increase and learn to live with a nuclear-armed North Korea or we have to decide to do something about it,'' he said.

''And unfortunately, the decisions to do something about it means either an economic blockade, which North Korea might consider an act of war, or pre-emptive military strikes, which would almost assuredly trigger a general war in East Asia,'' Carpenter said.

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