Does anyone even care about the North Korean nuclear issue any more?  I didn’t think so:

A top North Korean nuclear envoy wants to visit the United States for rare talks next month, news reports said Saturday, amid a push by diplomats to revive negotiations on ending Pyongyang‘s nuclear program. Officials in Washington said no such trip was planned. North Korea is strongly pushing for Kim Kye Gwan‘s trip to the United States in March, but the U.S. has not authorized a visa for him, South Korea‘s Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported, citing unidentified diplomatic sources.

Kim told his Chinese counterpart during this week’s meetings in Beijing he hopes to hold a bilateral meeting with the U.S. in March, Seoul’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported, also citing unnamed diplomats.Kim left for Pyongyang Saturday after concluding a five-day trip to China, Yonhap news agency reported from Beijing.”Both sides had an in-depth discussion on the issue of boosting the (North Korea)-China relations and matters of speeding up the denuclearization of the peninsula,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in comments carried by its official Korean Central News Agency.U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters Friday there were no plans for a visit by Kim, and no current U.S. discussions with North Korea about such a trip.  [USA Today]

It is pretty obvious the North Koreans are trying to get some cash out of Uncle Sam by offering the usual false promises in the wake of sanctions slowing their arms sales and the currency reform debacle.