NEW YORK - South Korea appears on a collision course with the United States over growing sentiment among American officials in favor of talks with North Korea in the hope of somehow dragging the North back to six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons.
The White House and State Department have already reached a consensus that there's no harm in beginning the bilateral dialogue that North Korea has long wanted - but only if the US nuclear envoy, Stephen Bosworth, can use such talks to persuade the North to return to multilateral talks that the North has vowed to spurn.
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