Forget about Agreed Framework 3.0 from the Obama administration, it looks like they may want to go back to Agreed Framework 2.0, or at least Kim Dae-jung does:

Former President Kim Dae-jung, the architect of the Sunshine Policy of promoting engagement with North Korea, will meet with the Obama administration’s front man on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, in Seoul Saturday.
“(The U.S. special envoy) Bosworth will visit my house in Seoul tomorrow,” Kim said in Beijing on Friday, without elaborating.

Expectations have been revived on the derailed multinational negotiation to dissuade North Korea’s nuclear ambition, as Beijing the two prominent figures who support the policy of engaging North Korea this week.

Bosworth arrived in Beijing Thursday, while the former South Korean President had been visiting China for five days until Friday.

In China, Kim met with a group of Chinese experts on North Korea on Thursday at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as well as Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who is widely believed to become the next president when the incumbent Hu Jintao steps down in 2012.

It’s not clear how the personal visit by the U.S. envoy to the architect of the Sunshine policy would help move forward the stalled nuclear talks.

Bosworth previously served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea and is known to be close to the former South Korean president, who initiated the Sunshine policy of reconciliation with North Korea a decade ago.

In Beijing, Kim underscored the grand principle of how the nuclear impasse can be worked out from here: to go back to the agreement both Pyongyang and Washington made in 2005.

“Both North Korea and the U.S. agreed to the September 19 Joint Declaration in 2005. So, the task now is to carry out that they agreed. And that would work,” he said.

In the 2005 agreement, Pyongyang pledged to give up its nuclear programs and Washington in turn agreed to move toward diplomatic normalization with North Korea as well as providing it with economic assistance.  [Korea Times]

So to go back to Agreed Framework 2.0 the Obama administration would have to ignore North Korea’s HEU program, nuclear proliferation to Syria, and agree to no real verification measures in North Korea.  This sound ridiculous, so who could go for such a deal?  Judging by his past history, a guy like Stephen Bosworth probably thinks this would be a great idea.  I guess we will see what happens.