North Korea says it could halt its uranium program

North Korea said Wednesday that it was open to talks over a deal to halt its uranium enrichment program, an agreement that seem within arrive at before the death of Kim Jong Il last month.The day begin inauspiciously as North Korea accused the United States of "politicizing" food aid, saying U.S. negotiators had accessible to ship humanitarian aid and temporarily lift economic sanctions if the North halted its uranium-enrichment program.

But a spokesman of the North's Foreign Ministry struck a appeasing chord, saying, "We will wait and see if the United States has a enthusiasm to establish confidence," the Korean Central News Agency reported.Negotiators took that as a sign that the government may be enthusiastic to engage Washington under Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong Un, even as it has vow not to talk with South Korea.

Kim's death left the world wondering where nuclear-armed North Korea, amid a food disaster would be headed under Kim Jong Un, who was consolidate his power as supreme commander of the North Korean People's Army.