The US government is likely to put North Korea back on the list of states sponsoring terrorism. While taking to the media, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack stated that if North Korea back off from its commitment to denuclearization, there is every possibility that the US may put it back on the terror list. He added that everything depends on the behaviour of North Korea.

 

The six nations - the US, Japan, Russia, China and two Koreas - involved in negotiations to persuade Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear programme ended without making any progress on the verification of North Korea's nuclear programme. In February 2007, all the six nations had signed an agreement under which North Korea agreed to abandon all nuclear weapons and promised to declare all its nuclear programmes and facilities by the end of 2007.

 

The Bush administration dropped the country from the terror list on October 11, 2008 after the US envoy Hill paid a three-day visit to Pyongyang and struck a verification deal with the North Korea. But both the countries entered into a dispute when US nuclear inspectors urged to take samples away from the North Korean facilities. Although US claimed to have exercised the move as per the deal, North Korea insists that it never reached such accord with the US.