N Korea willing to abort N-plan: Report

Seoul (South Korea): A North Korean official said Pyongyang is willing to return to international arms talks and abandon its atomic programme if the US takes "corresponding measures," South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.

"The nuclear test is an expression of our intention to face the United States across the negotiating table," the unnamed official said, according to a Yonhap report from Beijing.

"What we want is security of the (North), including guaranteeing our system," he said. The official also dismissed moves at the UN Security Council to sanction the communist nation over it reported nuclear test. "We have lost enough. Sanctions can never be a solution," the official said.