DAY BREAK 06:00 Coming up on this Thursday edition of Day Break,... South Korea′s nuclear envoy says the long-stalled multi-lateral talks on North Korea′s denuclearization can resume if North Korea shows a sincere attitude and is willing to hold constructive dialogue. Reports say Sony Pictures will officially name North Korea as the source of a hacking attack that crippled its computer systems last week. Plus,... political chaos in Sweden... as the country′s prime minister calls its first snap election in 50 years after the government′s budget fails to win parliamentary approval. Day Break begins now. Hello.... and thanks for joining us. To our viewers around the world, it′s 6 a.m. on Thursday, December fourth here in Seoul. I′m Mark Broome... and you′re tuned into Day Break. Title: Six-party talks may resume only if N. Korea shows sincerity to hold dialogue Our top story this morning... Resuming the long-stalled six-party talks has taken a big step toward becoming reality after South Korea expressed its willingness to come back to the table if North Korea first meets a couple of conditions. Wrapping up talks with Russia′s deputy foreign minister in Moscow on Wednesday, Seoul′s chief nuclear envoy, Hwang Joon-kook said the talks can resume if Pyongyang shows some sincerity and seriously intends to hold constructive dialogue on its denuclearization. Hwang added that, while relations between North Korea and Russia have been improved in recent weeks following the visit of a top North Korean official, Moscow still strongly opposes North Korea′s nuclear weapons development. He added that it′s possible North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putim could meet, but said he wasn′t aware of any timeframe. Title: N. Korea says it cannot accept UN human rights resolution, threatens nuke test North Korea has written to the UN Secretary-General telling him Pyongyang cannot accept a new UN resolution condemning the North for grave human rights violations. The North′s ambassador to the UN also said Washington′s hostile policies make it impossible for the North to refrain from conducting another nuclear test. Park Ji-won reports. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,... North Korea′s ambassador to the United Nations says Pyongyang cannot and will not accept the adoption of a resolution that takes aim at North Korea′s human rights violations. Ambassador Ja Song-nam writes that the European Union and Japan, who introduced the draft resolution last month,... as well as the United States,... had chosen a path of confrontation and that North Korea had no choice but to strengthen its war deterrence. That, a North Korean foreign ministry statement says,... could include another nuclear test. Meanwhile, in a move that aims to keep pressure on Pyongyang and global attention focused on the matter,... a group of countries led by South Korea and the U.S. are pushing to put the North Korean human rights issu

• published: 04 Dec 2014
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