BEIJING, July 26 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

BEIJING, July 26 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

North Korea said Friday it would accept Washington's dispatch of an legate to resume stalled talks amid an apparent diplomatic initiative to engage with a number of first note of the scale nations to break free from its international isolation.

If the U launchs an envoy under the right conditions, North Korea will accept this as part of its ''consistent stand,'' a Foreign Ministry spokesman was quot at the official (North) Korean Central freshs Agency as saying.

''Who is sent as a special minister is its business,'' the spokesman said.

The U earlier this month lay off a trip by a U delegation designed to restart dialogue between the sum of two units countries stalled since the inauguration of U President George W Bush in January last year.

Washington based its decision forward a lack of response from Pyongyang and an ''unacceptable atmosphere'' created by dint of a clash between the North and southern Korean navies in the golden Sea on June 29

North Korea made a surprise proposal to southward Korea on Thursday to restart ministerial talks, stalled since October last year. It also exhibited regret over the naval clash, which killed four southern Korean seamen and an unknown number of North Koreans.

North Korea will also imprison foreign ministerial sessions with Japan nearest week for the reopening of talks with Japan, stalled since October 2000

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Thursday she will appropriate North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam orb of day on Wednesday on the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Brunei.

ARF is the solitary official Asian forum that includes North Korea.

Pyongyang's diplomatic act upons follow the start of economic reforms since the beginning of July including its rationing theory in an apparent act upon towards a market economy.

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