It looks like Kim Jong-il should be a candidate for the next Nobel Peace Prize:

North Korea called for the worldwide removal of nuclear weapons and urged the United States first to end its atomic threat to Pyongyang for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at a recent U.N. meeting, the North’s state media said Sunday, Yonhap News reported.The North’s Korean Central News Agency and other state media carried the remarks by an unidentified delegate at the Oct. 12 meeting of the First Committee of the 64th UN General Assembly.

North Korea “demands total and comprehensive elimination of nuclear weapons in the world,” the North Korean official said at the meeting in New York, according to the reports.

“When the states with the largest nuclear arsenals take the lead in nuclear disarmament, it will positively influence the newly emerged nuclear weapons states in various parts of the world and also contribute to total elimination of nuclear weapons on this globe,” he noted.  [Korea Herald]